Preface
List of Figures, Tables and Boxes
1 Introduction
2 Legitimacy under Communism and Post-communism:
Theoretical Background
2.1 When Is a Rule 'Illegitimate '?
2.2 The Three Ideal Types of Legitimate Authority (and the
Fourth)
2.3 Various Types of Traditional Authority
3 Varieties of Communism
3.1 Introductory Remarks
3.2 What Is/Was Communism? The Political Economy of the Classical
System
3.3 Systems of Domination under Various Types of Communism
3.4 Reforming the Communist Economy
3.5 The Governance of State-Owned Enterprises
3.6 Stratification Regimes under Various Communist Formations
4 Reinterpretation of Inequalities and Rent-Seeking in
Advanced Market Economie
4.1 Profits versus Rents
4.2 Changing and New Forms of Rents
4.3 Institutional Consequences of Rent
4.4 Class Reproduction through the Accumulation of Human and
Cultural Capital
4.5 The Counter-Revolution of Nation States in the Name of More
Equality
5 The Divergent Pathways Out of Communism
5.1 Introductory Comments: Distinguishing Three Pathways to
Capitalisms
5.2 The Liberal Model
5.3 The Patrimonial Model
5.4 Market Socialism or Capitalism from Below?
5.5 The Structure of Post-communist Societies during the First
Phases of Transformation
6 Consolidation and Partial Re-convergence of
Post-communist Pathways?
6.1 Eastern European Liberal Democracies: Successes and Crises,
2000--2010
6.2 The New Legitimacy and a New Political Economy: Illiberal
Managed Democracy and Prebendalism
6.3 The Ideology of Post-communist Traditionalism
6.4 Liberal-Democratic Ways to Capitalism in Eastern Europe: The
Emergence of Prebendalism?
6.5 Is China on the Road to Putinism?
6.6 Social Structure in Post-communist Societies in or on the Way
to Prebendalism
7 Conclusions: Is Putinism a Model for
Post-communism?
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index
Ivn Szelnyi is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Political
Science at Yale University and at New York University (Abu Dhabi).
He has a long standing interest in class formation under state
socialism, and researched the origins of the new entrepreneurial
class.
is Professor at the Department of Macroeconomics, Corvinus
University of Budapest, and Visiting Professor at the Central
European University, Hungary. In the 1990s, he served -- inter alia
-- as Deputy Government Commissioner for Privatization and Deputy
Minister of Finance.
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