Public policies are usually carefully designed to address a particular problem, but they are also shaped and influenced by the sociocultural heritage of a particular country. This volume explores the origins of economic and other public policies in Central and Eastern Europe.
Public policies are usually carefully designed to address a particular problem, but they are also shaped and influenced by the sociocultural heritage of a particular country. This volume explores the origins of economic and other public policies in Central and Eastern Europe.
This region makes for a particularly interesting case because after going through a major system change – transitioning from a command economy into a market economy - many of the key policies were written anew. The contributors to this book look at key policy areas at the intersection of state and private sectors, including industrial, pension, energy and competition policies. The chapters examine key questions such as: how did these policies evolve from the time of transition to their final form? What were the main drivers of policy conduct and factors influencing major policy choices? How does the historical context impact contemporary policy space? Throughout the volume, an institutional approach is adopted, according to which policies are perceived as the outcome of top-down design, filtered through social institutions inherited from the past. With this approach, the book presents a long-running assessment, over 30 years, of policymaking in transition economies, which were subject to profound changes throughout the period.
The book will be of interest to readers in institutional economics, policy studies, transition economies and the recent history of Eastern Europe.
I. Between institutions and policies conceptual approaches
1.
Institutionalization of economic policies in transition economies.
Theoretical aspects and historical lessons Maciej J. Grodzicki, Anna
Zachorowska-Mazurkiewicz
2. Great Transformations in Historical Perspective.
Market and Class in England, Algeria and Poland Maciej Kassner
3. The state
in a (post)transition economy: between neoliberalism and neostatism Marek
Ratajczak II. Organized interests
4. Interest-Centred Explanation of Pension
Reforms in Poland Anna Zbkowicz
5. Labour incomes and economic activity in
Poland Adam Koronowski
6. Path of privatization and its risks for Ukraine
Yurii Pogorelov, Yevheniia Polishchuk III. Framing of policies
7. Stages in
the development of competition and consumer protection policy in Poland in
1990-2021 and their contribution to the foundations of Poland's
socio-economic order Katarzyna Kamiska
8. Economic policies and
entrepreneurial activity in transition economies from the institutional
perspective as evidenced by Kosovo and North Macedonia Fadil Sahiti
9.
Evolution of institutional determinants of innovation policy in Poland
Karolina Trzaska, Ewa Gruszewska IV. Sectoral case studies
10. Intangible
investment and governance quality in the new and old member states of the
European Union rt Kostevc, Tjaa Redek
11. Regulatory governance in
telecommunications industry in Poland Renata liwa
12. The Hungarian energy
policy from the system change to mature EU membership - adequacy with regard
to current challenges Sarolta Somosi
Maciej J. Grodzicki is an assistant professor at the Institute of Economics, Finance and Management at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.
Anna Zachorowska-Mazurkiewicz is an associate professor at the Institute of Economics, Finance and Management and a director of the Doctoral School in the Social Sciences at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.
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