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After transition: Varieties of political-economic development in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

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  1. I am indebted to CEP's anonymous reviewer for insightful feedback and pertinent suggestions that helped to improve the argument of this paper.

  2. This composite measure is based on life expectancy at birth, adult literacy, primary and tertiary education enrolment, and gross domestic product per capita.

  3. Many Eastern European sociologists would see the development of new elites rather as a reproduction than circulation (for example, Hankiss, 1990; Staniszkis, 1991; Machonin et al, 2006, p. 544). Indeed, the developments described by King can be understood as a (degree of) circulation within elites. A rigid interpretation of the elite theory language is not helpful here (cf. Szelenyi and Szelenyi, 1995).

  4. But see a more positive assessment of recent regulatory reform in EBRD (2007).

  5. Bohle and Greskovits’ analysis of revealed comparative advantage also relies heavily on export statistics. It thus suffers from the same problems as the analysis from the VoC perspective in this respect. Studies of a more qualitative nature could be useful here (cf. Myant in VOCIP).

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Drahokoupil, J. After transition: Varieties of political-economic development in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Comp Eur Polit 7, 279–298 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1057/cep.2008.30

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