ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a regulationist, state-theoretical account of the transformation of state projects, intervention, and strategy in relation to the effects on the production and reproduction of capitalism in East-Central Europe (ECE). It describes emergence and transformations of dominant state projects, and accumulation strategies with respect to their functional adequacy in relation to the dynamic of capitalist accumulation. The chapter introduces methodology and analytical dimensions of the inquiry. It focuses on the role of the state in introducing generic forms of capitalist relations into the ECE. The chapter also provides stylized models of dominant state projects and accumulation strategies with respect to their functional adequacy to socio-economic reproduction in ECE after the fall of state socialism. It argues that after a period of distinctive national projects, there has been a relative convergence towards an emerging dominant state project, which it calls Porterian workfare post-national regime.
