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Interpreting Communist Systems and Their Differences in Operation and Transformation as Networks

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  • Maria Csanádi

    (Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

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Why some party-states collapse and others don't? Why some transformations are accompanied by economic crisis while others by economic growth? Are first political or economic transformation strategic alternatives? This paper comprises the essence of the author’s comparative research on party-state systems in Europe and Asia embodied in a comparative interactive party-state model interpreted as network. Networks evolve during the decision-making process formed by the tightly intertwined dependency and interest promotion relationships among actors in the party, the state, and the economy. The model also describes the structural background of the different operation and transformation of party-state systems as specific patterns of power distribution in the network forging the different ways and instruments of self-reproduction, and different sequence, speed and conditions of system transformation.

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  • Maria Csanádi, 2014. "Interpreting Communist Systems and Their Differences in Operation and Transformation as Networks," CERS-IE WORKING PAPERS 1427, Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies.
    • Handle: RePEc:has:discpr:1427
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    Keywords

    party-state systems; network; varieties of power distribution; selective resource distribution; political rationality of economic behavior; transformation; China;
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    JEL classification:

    • P2 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies
    • P5 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Comparative Economic Systems
    • D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
    • F5 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy
    • P21 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - Planning, Coordination, and Reform
    • P26 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - Property Rights
    • P30 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions - - - General

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