Politics of Pact-Making

• Utgivningsdatum: 2015-12-23
• Mått: 140 x 216 x 13 mm
• Vikt: 299 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: Political Evolution and Institutional Change
• Antal sidor: 217
• Upplaga: 2005
• Förlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• ISBN: 9781349532735

• Statsvetenskap och politisk teori
• Internationella relationer

JOHN SCHIEMANN is an Assistant Professor of Administrative Science at Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA.

"The collapse of the Communist regimes after 1989, the closing of a long historical parenthesis, was a momentous event. In this study of the Hungarian transition John Schiemann offers the first analytical account of one of these processes, with wide implications for transitions more generally. In a compelling picture of bargaining under uncertainty, he shows how differing attitudes to risk rather than conflicting political demands generated the dynamics of the transition. It is a book that should be obligatory reading for students of regime change, who too easily come to see as inevitable what for the actors themselves was a highly contingent set of events. The Hungarian communists may have been moribund, but the world did not know it until they were dead." - Jon Elster, Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Science, Columbia University 'This highly original study adds greatly to our knowledge of pact-making and political bargaining by forcing us to think beyond the categoriess of 'regime' and 'opposition' and recognize that the role of risk-takers and risk-avoiders within each category is pivotal to any outcome. Beginning with meticulous research on the Hungarian case and then expanding to three other cases for a rigorous test of the author's argument, this book solves a key puzzle about who wins and who loses in the bargains that lie at the foundation of failed and successful regime change. This is an enlightening study that truly deserves a wide audience.' - Nancy Bermeo, Professor of Politics, Princeton University

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