Stephen Padgett

Organizing Democracy in Eastern Germany (eBook, PDF)

Interest Groups in Post-Communist Society

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Produktbeschreibung

The emergence of interest group politics is one of the decisive factors in democratic transformation in post-communist society. Stephen Padgett argues that evidence from eastern Germany suggests that market transition produces rather open and fluid societies, in which group interests and identities are tenuous. Lacking a supportive social infrastructure, interest groups operate on 'entrepreneurial' lines, a form of associational activity which falls far short of pluralist ideals. With its accelerated transition to a market economy, eastern Germany provides a 'fast-forward' study of an 'advanced post-communist society' which enables us to anticipate the social structures and issues shaping interest-group politics in the newly-democratizing states of east-central Europe. Examining a number of different interest groups, and comparing a number of countries across east-central Europe, this book may also offer a vision of the future of interest-group politics in the West.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511032851
• Artikelnr.: 38200934

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The emergence of civil society
2. Socio-economic foundations
3. Organization
4. Participation and the logic of collective action
5. Group dynamics
6. Organized interests, the state and public policy
Conclusion.