Acta Oeconomica
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Volume 55: Issue 2
Reforms and transformation paths in comparative perspective: challenging comparative views on East European and Chinese reforms
Author: Mária Csanádi 1
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  • 1 Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences H-1112 Budapest, Budaörsi út 45, Hungary
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/aoecon.55.2005.2.3
Page Count:
171–199
Publication Date:
01 Jul 2005
Online Publication Date:
05 Aug 2005
Article Category:
Research Article
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Reforms, in view of a comparative party-state model, become the instruments of self-reproduction and self-destruction of party-state power. The specific patterns of power distribution imply different development and transformation paths through different instruments of self-reproduction. This approach also points to the structural and dynamic background of the differences in the location, sequence, speed and political conditions of reforms during the operation and transformation of party-states. In view of the model the paper points to the inconsistencies that emerge in the comparative reform literature concerning the evaluation and strategies of reforms disconnected from their systemic-structural context.

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Acta Oeconomica Periodical of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN:
0001-6373
Online ISSN:
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Keywords:
transformation; transformation; comparative party-state model; reproduction constraints; comparative reforms; reforms from below; reforms from above; reform pace; reform sequence; political economy; political science

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