A study of post-communist transformation. It offers theoretical and empirical analyses of fundamental economic, cultural and political problems of systemic change in Central and Eastern Europe, developing a set of interrelated approaches that are cross-disciplinary and sociologically informed.

Postcommunist Transformation and the Social Sciences explores postcommunist systemic change, the role of religion and collective identity, the significance of trust and economic culture, patterns of state-economy interactions in enterprise restructuring, the context of EU expansion, the strengths and weaknesses of economic theory and neoliberal doctrine, and the history of ideas in the postcommunist transformation debate. Bringing together leading experts in the field to illustrate the fruitfulness of multidisciplinary analysis in understanding socioeconomic transitions, this work will be valuable for economists, sociologists, and political scientists alike.