... production efficiency leading to improved social welfare. The model is exemplified by the Chinese and Vietnamese experiences during the 1980s. Furthermore, this article demonstrates that the model is applicable to the North Korean economy under Kim Jong Un’s economic reform policy of the “Socialist System...

... to how surveys treat non-respondents to these types of questions. We extend this line of inquiry to a well-known case of large-scale economic reform, Russia in the mid-1990s. Our major finding is that Russians who fail to answer survey questions tend to be consistently less “liberal” than...

... reserved. 2003 The Regents of the University of California Institutional learning Operational codes Post-Communist transition Social change Economic reform Romania Communist and Post-Communist Studies 36 (2003) 87 99 Operational codes, institutional learning and the optimistic model of post...

... by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Postcommunism state-building; Postcommunism state weakness; Economic reform; Redistribu- tive conflicts; Bulgaria; State-society relations Amidst the turbulence that marked the early stages of postcommunism, various winners emerged on the political...

... The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2000 The Regents of the University of California EU integration Poland Steel Economic reform Communist and Post-Communist Studies 33 (2000) 201 221 Penalizing the reformers: Polish steel...

...Amanda Rose Among the arguments for rapid economic reform in transitions to the market in Central and Eastern Europe, scholars have argued that rapid reformers could better take advantage of the period of ‘extraordinary politics’ at the beginning of the transition. Regime transitions provide...

... flows Foreign investment Direct investment Transition Economic reform Communist and Post-Communist Studies 32 (1999) 91 109 Foreign direct investment in Ukraine since transition Mohammed Ishaq* Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK Received...