KRYTYCZNE WYBORY USTROJOWE W POKOMUNISTYCZNEJ TRANSFORMACJI
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2007
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Wydział Prawa i Administracji UAM
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The article seeks to identify internal factors explaining the diversity in evolutionary paths of
post-communist countries. We build our analytical framework around three actors (Communist
Establishment, Society and Opposition) and use the status in their patterns of mutual relations to
explain fundamental choices in transition from central planning and totalitarian political regime.
These choices involve strategy of economic transformation, the type of government, and the electoral
system. Three cases emerge from this analysis: (1) Communist Establishment in control; (2)
co-habitation between the Opposition and the Communist Establishment; (3) the Opposition in
charge. Each o f these cases implies a different evolutionary path driven by strategic choices made and
thereby different outcomes. Case (3) has generated the path with lower economic adjustment costs
and producing democracy. In contrast, the case (1) has tended to produce regimes with limited
political and economic freedoms.
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Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny 69, 2007, z. 1, s. 185-212.
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0035-9629