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"Why the Ex-Communist Countries Should Take the 'Middle Way' to the Market" [PDF]
The ex-communist countries of Europe as well as Soviet Union want to find a way out of the command economy to a market system. The common advice (e.g., Lipton and Sachs, Kornai) has been to go quickly "all the way" to a fully capitalist economy.
Kenneth Koford
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ABSTRACT This article investigates the changes in the structure of employment in Central and Eastern European firms between 2001 and 2007, before the Global Financial Crisis and following the reforms in the labour and credit markets in these economies.
Elisabetta Magnani
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The Political U: New Evidence on the Economic Costs of Hybrid Regimes
ABSTRACT Recent research establishes a positive causal effect from democracy to income, although this evidence relies mostly on binary regime classifications. We extend the identification framework of Acemoglu et al. (2019) to a classification that distinguishes democracies, autocracies, and hybrid regimes for about 170 countries over 1960–2024.
Nauro F. Campos +2 more
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Learning with a Warmer World: Climate Change Education for Forms of Life*
Abstract Climate change poses a threat to young people's capacity to flourish both now and in the future. In response, Aristotelian Climate Change Education (CCE) aims to cultivate radicalized climate virtues in students and give them structured opportunities to contemplate Socrates's question—“How should one live?”—amidst conditions of unprecedented ...
Melissa Diamond, Tomas Rocha
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Social Justice as a Catalyst for Ecumenical Engagement
Abstract This article provides a comprehensive overview of the historical formation of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America (FCC), examining the social and political context in the United States that shaped its adoption of ecumenical practices focused on social justice.
Geneva Blackmer
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Market Reforms and Growth in Post-socialist Economies: Evidence from Panel Cointegration and Equilibrium Correction Model [PDF]
In this paper the impact of market reforms on economic growth has been analyzed using the panel data for 26 post-socialist economies over the period between 1989 and 2005.
Igor Pelipas, Alexander Chubrik
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POST-SOCIALIST HOUSING POLICY TRANSFORMATION IN YUGOSLAVIA AND BELGRADE
In this article, housing policy changes are observed within a theoretical background that relies on social structure analysis and the path dependency approach.
Mina Petrovic
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Investigation of Development Indicators in the Balkan Countries for the Post-Socialist Period [PDF]
Since the collapse of central economic planning in the world, former Iron Curtain Countries have been changing as social, economic and political structures.
ÇELEBİOĞLU, Fatih
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Consigning Injustice to History with Political Apologies
ABSTRACT Failures to remember the past properly can constitute a range of different wrongs. In this article, we identify a novel kind of wrong that often occurs through political apologies: consigning an injustice to history. Consigning acknowledges that a historical injustice took place but denies that it has any ongoing relevance for the present ...
Alfred Archer, Benjamin Matheson
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Absent Europe: Civic Protest and the Erosion of EU Symbolism in Serbia
Abstract This article analyses the strategic management of European Union (EU) references in Serbia's 2024–2025 student mobilisation. Drawing on original fieldwork and 18 semi‐structured interviews, the article integrates framing theory with the Discourse‐Historical Approach to reconstruct how EU‐related meanings were produced and operationalised.
Anna Seliverstova
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