Self-organisation and Development: A Comparative Approach to Post-communist Transformations from the Perspective of Social Systems Theory

Tea Golob and Matej Makarovič

Europe-Asia Studies, 2017, vol. 69, issue 10, 1499-1525

Abstract: The article addresses post-communist transformations in Central and Eastern Europe through the conceptual apparatus of Luhmann’s social systems theory, which sees increasing functional differentiation in terms of subsystems’ autonomous autopoietic self-organisation as the key aspect of these transformations. By applying fuzzy-set analysis, it is demonstrated that a radical break with the former communist regime is sufficient for the self-organisation of the political subsystem, and necessary for the market reforms that are sufficient for the self-organisation of the economic subsystem. Moreover, the self-organisation of both functional subsystems has clearly contributed to development in terms of an increase in the Human Development Index after 1990.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2017.1399198

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