Rules And Roles Fluid Institutions Hybrid Roles And Identities In East European Transformation Processes 19892005 Lit Alexander Kiossev by Alexander Kiossev, Petya Kabakchieva (eds.) 9783643800084, 3643800088 instant download after payment.

This volume features texts by authors from Romania, Slovenia, Serbia and Bulgaria.It was conceived as a clarification of the Southeast European transitionfrom the perspective of the changes in various institutions (the army, the judicial system, the institutions of collective memory, etc.) and the impact of these institutionalchanges on the roles and identities of the social actors caught up in them. Since the heightened interest in Eastern Europe and institutional cultures in the period of transition has produced a number of important publications in the last eighteen years (Offe 2004; Elster, Offe and Preuss 2000; Grabner, Gernot and Stark 1997; Stark and Bruszt 1998; Giordano and Conte 1999; Goldschmidt and Zweynert 2006; Možný 2003, to name but a few), we will try to demonstrate what is specific about our approach. The successes and failures in applying the neo-liberal institutional models, which appeared to have no alternative after the collapse of communism, gave rise to different explanatory schemes positedat different levels: political, sociological, anthropological or cultural.