Civil Society, Institutional Change and the Politics of Reform: The Great Transition

László Bruszt, Jan Fidrmuc, Gérard Roland and Nauro Campos

No wp-2010-038, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between differences in civil society development under communism and the political, economic and institutional change and transformation after 1989. We collected a unique dataset on nature and intensity of dissident activities in 27 former communist countries during the years immediately preceding the collapse of communism. We use the resulting data to explain the subsequent political, economic and institutional developments in the post-communist countries.

Keywords: Communist; Institutional economics; Microeconomics; Political science; Post-communism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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