State and Society in Post-Socialist Economies

The Spirit of Post-socialism; J.Pickles PART 1: ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE, THE STATE AND VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM Leading Sectors and the Variety of Capitalism in Eastern Europe; B.Greskovits Transnational Actors and Corporate Governance in ECE; A.Vliegenthart On the State of the State: Czech Transformation and the Moment of Convergence in the Visegrad Region; J.Drahokoupil Corporate Control Models in Russian Companies and Business Integration; T.G.Dolgopyatova Diverging and Harmonizing of Corporate Governance in Russia; S.Mizobata PART 2: SOCIAL MOBILIZATION AND ECONOMIC TRANFORMATION State-Society Relations in Belarus; K.Haiduk Labour Markets and Trade Unions in Four New Member Countries of the European Union; M.Congiu Cultural Capital, State Regulation and Tourism in Post-Socialist Bulgaria; K.Ghodsee State Policies, Uneven Development and Environmental Regulation in Urban and Rural Lithuania; J.Maciulyte Building a Social Cause in Post-Communist Countries: The case of the Ecology inthe Czech Republic; S.Devaux Informal Practice, Cultural Capital and Politics in the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania; Å.B.Grødeland Conclusion: State, Society and Hybrid Post-Socialist Economies; J.Pickles

MASSIMO CONGIU Journalist for Il Movimento and has worked for many years with trade unions on economic reform in post-socialist societiesSANDRINE DEVAUX Faculty member in the Group of European Political Sociology, University of Robert Schuman, Strasbourg, FranceJAN DRAHOKOUPIL Garnet Research Fellow, Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, The NetherlandsTATIANA G. DOLGOPYATOVA Professor, Department of Microeconomic Analysis, State University - Higher School of Economics, RussiaKRISTEN GHODSEE Assistant Professor, Bowdoin College, USABELA GRESKOVITS Professor of Political Science, Central European University, HungaryÅSE BERIT GRØDELAND Researcher, Norwegian Institute of Urban and Regional Research, NorwayKIRYL HAIDUK Department of International Relations and European Studies, Central European University, Budapest, HungaryJURGITA MACIULYTE Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Spatial Planning, Vilnius University, LithuaniaSATOSHI MIZOBATAProfessor, University of Kyoto, Kyoto Institute of Economic Research, JapanARJAN VLIEGENTHART Amsterdam Research Centre for Corporate Governance Regulation (ARCCGOR), Vrije University, The Netherlands