The postsocialist transformation in Central and Eastern Europe

  • GRESKOVITS B
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ABSTRACT What is attempted in the East is catching up with the West from a recent position of worse-than-Latin-American economic backwardness. Until now, populations that were sentenced to political patience by the logic of poor democracies have reluctantly backed this enormous effort. Central and Eastern Europe’s post-socialist path is characterized by an increasingly discredited ideology of a return to Europe and a non- European combination of substitute institutions of development: radical opening towards the world economy, damaged institutions of labor representation, eroded state capacity, and often strong private and foreign dominance in the financial and other strategic sectors. There is a chance for a few countries to succeed. Yet various development traps may be more likely in the end than a “Great Spurt” in the Gerschenkronian sense.RESUMO O Oriente está tentando o catching-up a partir de uma posição recente de ‘atraso econômico pior do que da América Latina’. Até agora, as populações condenadas à paciência política pela lógica das pobres democracias apoiaram com relutância esse enorme esforço. O caminho pós-socialista da Europa Central e Oriental é caracterizado por uma ideologia cada vez mais desacreditada de um retorno à Europa e uma combinação não europeia de instituições substitutas de desenvolvimento: abertura radical para a economia mundial, instituições danificadas de representação trabalhista, capacidade estatal desgastada e frequentemente forte domínio privado e estrangeiro nos setores financeiros e outros setores estratégicos. Há uma chance de alguns países terem sucesso. No entanto, várias armadilhas de desenvolvimento podem ser mais prováveis no final do que um “grande surto” no sentido gerschenkroniano.

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GRESKOVITS, B. (2002). The postsocialist transformation in Central and Eastern Europe. Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 22(4), 579–593. https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-31572002-1270

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