Not Only the Market / / Martin Potůček.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
• VerfasserIn: Potůček, Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [1999]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (164 p.)

Successful transition for any post-communist country is reliant upon market, government and the civil sector. Potucek's pioneering study of the Czech Republic highlights the early transitional mistakes made during the Klaus era with respect to the role of these sectors. Not Only the Market examines the balance between where the sectors are or should be and makes useful comparisons with other post-communist countries. Focusing on developmental issues, the book looks at a number of public concerns including social and health care reform, privatization and the emerging patterns of corporatism and examines problems such as insufficient legislation, excessive lenience and the incompetence of public administration which has created an unreasonably large space for socio-pathological forces - corruption, Mafia activity and the siphoning of public funds into private hands. The causes and consequences of these forces are considered and Potucek provides a blueprint of reform which emphasizes the necessity of a conscious public policy to optimize both freedom and inequality.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- List of Tables -- Preface to the English Edition -- Preface to the Czech Edition -- Acknowledgments -- I. Theoretical Framework -- 1. Definitions of Terms and Their Interrelationships -- 2. The Market -- 3. Government -- 4. The Civic Sector -- 5. Citizens -- 6. Values and Ideologies -- 7. Seeking a Balance -- II. Problem Areas -- 8. Privatization -- 9. Corporatism -- 10. Corruption and the Mafia -- 11. The Role of Public Policy -- III. Conclusion -- 12. The 'Choice of Society' in the Czech Republic -- Appendix: The Disciplinary Foundations of the Present Study -- Endnotes -- Bibliography