ABSTRACT
The concept of social capital has been used by political scientists to explain both the transition to democracy in Eastern Europe and the decline of social cohesion in Western societies. This edited collection presents the latest quantitative research on how post-communist countries are adapting to Western models of society. The book combines theoretical and institutional analysis with detailed case-studies looking at Russia, Poland, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Romania and the former East Germany.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|18 pages
Trust networks and democratic transition: Yugoslavia in the mid-1980s HAJDEJA IGLICˇ
Yugoslavia in the mid-1980s
chapter 3|18 pages
Communist societies, the velvet revolution, and weak ties
The case of East Germany
chapter 13|14 pages
Legacies and conflicts
The challenges to social capital in the democratic transition
