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Reconceptualizing the State: Lessons from Post-Communism

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  • Anna Grzymala-Busse
  • Pauline Jones Luong

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The (re)building of the post-communist states offers new perspectives both on the state and on the multiple transitions that followed communism. Specifically, it shifts our analytical focus from states as consolidated outcomes and unitary actors to the process by which states come into being and into action in the modern era. This process consists of elite competition over policy-making authority, which is shaped and constrained by existing institutional resources, the pacing of transformation, and the international context. The four ideal types of state-building that result are exemplified by the post-communist experience: democratic, autocratic, fractious, and personalistic.

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  • Anna Grzymala-Busse & Pauline Jones Luong, 2002. "Reconceptualizing the State: Lessons from Post-Communism," Politics & Society, , vol. 30(4), pages 529-554, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:polsoc:v:30:y:2002:i:4:p:529-554
    DOI: 10.1177/003232902237825
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    1. Brown, J. David & Earle, John S. & Gehlbach, Scott, 2009. "Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 103(2), pages 264-283, May.
    2. Sikor, Thomas, 2005. "Agro-Environmental Governance and the State: Lessons from Central and Eastern Europe," Proceedings “Schriften der Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaues e.V.”, German Association of Agricultural Economists (GEWISOLA), vol. 40, March.
    3. Gerti SQAPI, 2019. "Stateness before democracy? A theoretical perspective for centrality of stateness in the democratization process: The case of Albania," Eastern Journal of European Studies, Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, vol. 10, pages 45-65, June.

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