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Varieties of Transition: The East European and East German Experience

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1997

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Preface. 1. The Structure of Industrial Societies: The Joint Characteristics and Shortcomings of State Socialist Societies and Democratic Capitalism. 2. Prosperity, Nation, Republic: Modes of Societal Integration and the Unique German Journey from Socialism to Capitalism. 3. Capitalism by Democratic Design? Democratic Theory Facing the Triple Transition in East Central Europe. 4. Ethnic Politics in East European Transitions. 5. Disqualification, Retribution, Restitution: Dilemmas of Justice in Post--Communist Transitions. 6. The Morality of Restitution: Reflections on Some Normative Questions Raised by the Transition to a Private Economy (with Frank Bonker). 7. A a Special Patha of Transformation? The German a Accession Territorya Compared with its East European Neighbours. 8. Economic a Hardwarea and Institutional a Softwarea in the two German Transitions to Democracy: Comparing Post--1945 West Germany with Post--1989 East Germany. 9. The Left after the Westa s Victory. Notes. References. Index.