... of the national community, but also the ideological and institutional resources that underpin the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) program of industrial resourcification and modernization. Our argument focuses on the mutual constitution and coproduction of natural, ideological, and institutional regime...

...Tomasz Legiedz This paper attempts to explain the process of institutional transition of post-communist countries applying conceptual framework proposed by D.C. North, J. J. Wallis, and B. R. Weingast. The first part of the article is devoted to outline the theory of North, Weingast, and Wallis...

... The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2012 The Regents of the University of California Institutions Institutional change Economic Man (Homo Economicus) Transitional Economies Soviet Man f tran s proc Soviet Union and the transition...

...Vladimir Gel’man The article presents an analysis of “informal institutionalization” in post-Communist Russia in theoretical and comparative perspective. It is devoted to critical analysis of existing explanations of the dominance of subversive institutions – that is, those rules, norms...

...Grzegorz W. Kolodko The progress toward institutional changes should be evaluated through the prism of their influence on a country’s development abilities. In Poland, during the twenty years of comprehensive systemic shift, gross domestic product (GDP) has increased more than in any other post...

... institutions even when those formal institutions undergo a radical change, that is, revolution. To that end I will be comparing two agricultural societies — Russia and China — beginning with their Imperial periods — to show how their attitudes towards their peasantry have endured through the upheaval of both...

..., sustainable goals and appropriate programs, high level of corruption, general socio-cultural (moral) crisis, passive civil position of society, lack of democracy, and inadequacy of institutions, for example, the higher education system. The contemporary problems of social capital development and inefficiency...

...Nathalie Fabry; Sylvain Zeghni The aim of this paper is to emphasize the role of institutions to attract FDI in 11 former communist European Countries: eight new members of the European Union (Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia) and three candidates...

...Vladimir Shlapentokh The article’s topic is the attitudes of the Russians toward their social institutions. As it will be shown, Russia is a country, much more than any other, that mistrusts its social institutions, political institutions in particular. There is no one institution that can garner...

... recruitment are patterned by institutional arrangements. Data analysis supports my explanation of elite selection in China. Technical training, sponsored mobility, and functional differentiation: Elite formation in China in the reform era Xiaowei Zang* Department of Applied Social Studies, City University...

...Simon Hug Theory suggests that the political effects of referendums should vary according to the institutional provisions that allow for direct involvement of citizens in decision-making. Relying on extant theoretical models the paper proposes initial tests of some implications for the newly...

... © 2005 The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2005 The Regents of the University of California Institutions Economic policy Transition Growth Development Globalization Lessons for the emerging markets from Poland s great...

...Konstantinos J. Papadoulis This article examines how the choice of Ukraine’s constitutional system affects both the relationship among key constitutional actors and the prospects of institutional change. It analyzes the character of the relationship between the president and parliament...

...Shaoguang Wang Now nearly everyone accepts the fact that institutions matter. However, institutions matter in more than one way. While sound institutions may help to reduce uncertainty and create order in human interactions, flawed institutions may produce results that go contrary...