72 research outputs found
International Conciliation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. COMECON, No. 549, September 1964
The Council of Mutual Economic Assistance is the least known
of all the regional organizations. This is attributable partly to
the fact that it was largely dormant from its inception in 1949
until the late 1950s and partly to the scattered and fragmentary
nature of information on its activities. The present article is an
attempt to bring available knowledge into focus for a coherent
pioture of the organization that "will probably play an increasing
role in the economic development of East Central Europe."
COMECON is of interest not only because of its importance
as one of the regional bodies shaping a network of relations
among European countries. Its interest lies also in the light it
throws on the particular problems faced by centrally planned
economies when they try to integrate and in its demonstration
that international organizations have a life of their own
Why did socialist economies fail? The role of factor inputs reconsidered
We re-estimate investment and present revised growth accounts for three socialist economies between 1950 and 1989. Government statistics reported distorted measures for both the rate and trajectory of productivity growth in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland. Researchers have benefited from revised output data, but continued to use official statistics on capital input, or estimated capital stock from official investment data. Investment levels and rates of capital accumulations were much lower than officially claimed and over-reporting worsened over time. A setback in factor accumulation, both equipment investment and labor input, contributed very significantly to the socialist growth failure of the 1980s
Citizenship Norms in Eastern Europe
Research on Eastern Europe stresses the weakness of its civil society and the lack of political and social involvement, neglecting the question: What do people themselves think it means to be a good citizen? This study looks at citizensâ definitions of good citizenship in Poland, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Hungary, using 2002 European Social Survey data. We investigate mean levels of civic mindedness in these countries and perform regression analyses to investigate whether factors traditionally associated with civic and political participation are also correlated with citizenship norms across Eastern Europe. We show that mean levels of civic mindedness differ significantly across the four Eastern European countries. We find some support for theories on civic and political participation when explaining norms of citizenship, but also demonstrate that individual-level characteristics are differently related to citizenship norms across the countries of our study. Hence, our findings show that Eastern Europe is not a monolithic and homogeneous bloc, underscoring the importance of taking the specificities of countries into account
Ideology in a Socialist State: Poland, 1956-1983. By Ray Taras. Soviet and East European Studies (edited by Julian Cooper
Peace in Parts: Integration and Conflict in Regional Organization. By J. S. Nye. (Boston, Mass.: Litle, Brown and Company, 1971. Pp. 210. $3.95.)
Oberschlesien Nach Dem Zweiten Weltkrieg: Verwaltung, BevĂślkerung, Wirtschaft. By Ernst Bohr, Richard Breyer, and Ekkehard Buchhofer. Marburg/Lahn: J. G. Herder-Institut, 1975. xii, 342 pp. Maps. Paper.
Public Opinion and Political Change in Poland, 1980â1982. By David S. Mason. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. 275p. $42.00.
East Central Europe: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. Edited by Milorad M. Drachkovitch. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 1982. xi, 417 pp. Tables. $25.95.
Osteuropas Wirtschaftsprobleme Und Die Ost-West-Beziehungen. Edited by Hans-Hermann Hohmann and Heinrich Vogel. Osteuropa und der international Kommunismus, vol. 14. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1985. 308 pp. Tables. DM 68.00.
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