European Transformations: Five Decisive Years at the Turn of the Century - An "Innovation" Reader, 1988-92(No 1 Contemporary Trends in European Social Sciences)

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Europe at the crossroads - transitions and/or crises?. Part 1 After the Cold War - what Europe?: the East and the West - what co-operation, what aid?, Ronald J. Pohoryles; "Europeaness" - a new cultural battlefield?, Philip Schlesinger. Part 2 The East - late Communism - and thereafter?: cycles in centrally-planned economic systems, Gabriele Schreiber-Tuitz; economy and education in the socialist corporate system, Jaroslaw Gorniak; perestroika and the problems of social differentiation, Vladim S. Rogovin; problems of corruption in the Soviet society, Vladim S. Rogovin; the rise and expected fall of functional corruption - a Hungarian case study, Laszlo Bruszt and Tamas Reti; the nomenklatura endowment - apparatchiks into entrepreneurchiks, or, from communist ranks to capitalist riches, Jacek Tarkowski; religion, democracy and change, Patrick Michel; conflicting bonds of nationality in Hungary, Gyorgy Csepeli and Tibor Zavecz; perestroika, public opinion and Pamyat, Robert J. Brym; the Soviet linguistic policy and its consequences, Mart Rannut; formal and informal policy networks to cope with crisis, Endre Sik and Janos Szanto. Part 3 The West - disintegration after the loss of the foe?: erosion of solidarity in modern welfare states, Yngvar Lochen; towards an integrated and synergized social policy - concepts and strategies, Pierpaolo Donati; ethnic mobilization in a multicultural society, John Rex; constructing the xenophobic subject, Liana Giorgi; political localism and national identity in Italy - the case of regional leagues, Giancarlo Rovati; Jewish identity after the Holocaust - the reconstruction of the Viennese Jewry from the point of view of three generations, Ronald J. Pohoryles and Sabine Pohoryles-Drexel; Soviet Jews in Vienna - a case study, Sabine Pohoryles-Drexel and Ronald J. Pohoryles; the internal logic and contradictions of migration control, Liana Giorgi et al; the impact of EC border policies on the policing of "refugees" in Eastern and Central Europe, Mike King; regulating conflicts fo interest among public officials - the British case, Michael Pinto-Duschinsky. Part 4 Towards a common Europe? problems to overcome: democratic nationalism versus international integration in a pluralistic European system, Henrik Kreutz; the voice of the roots, ethno-national mobilization in a global world, Alberto Melucci; exclusive nationalism versus inclusive patriotism - state ideologies for divided societies, Heribert Adam; conflict and co-operation, two sides of a coin, Anatol Rapoport.