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This timely comparative analysis explores the evolution of governance in Central and Eastern Europe. The book considers post-communist leaders' key challenge: the development of central government institutions capable of coordinating, integrating, and steering the policymaking process. Building on a broad range of primary sources and extensive field research, the distinguished authors analyze the processes and outcomes of institution-building in Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Bulgaria since the late 1980s. They examine in detail the organization and inner workings of central executives; explain differences in executive trajectories across time and countries by considering the influ...
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An in-depth survey of the region presenting the latest economic and political developments. It includes expert comment on issues of regional importance, up-to-date statistics, a directory of institutes and companies and political profiles.
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For the last 136 years, The Statesman's Yearbook has been relied upon to provide accurate and comprehensive information on the current political, economic and social status of every country in the world. The appointment of the new editor - only the seventh in 136 years - brought enhancements to the 1998-99 edition and these are continued in the 2000 edition. Internet usage figures are included. Specially commissioned essays from major political and academic figures supplement country entries in areas of major upheaval and change. A fold out colour section provides a political world map and flags for the 191 countries of the world. The task of monitoring the pattern or flow of world change is never-ending. However, the annual publication of The Statesman's Yearbook gives all the information needed in one easily digestible single volume. It will save hours of research and cross-referencing between different sources. A prestigious and popular book, The Statesman's Yearbook is updated every 12 months. In a world of continual change The Statesman's Yearbook is a necessary annual purchase.
Dla zrozumienia społecznej pozycji środowisk arystokratycznych i postziemiańskich zasadnicze znaczenie ma relacja łącząca je z inteligencją. W przeszłości była to w dużej mierze relacja antagonistyczna, jednak po 1918 roku, który można uznać za symboliczny moment ustanowienia II Rzeczypospolitej jako swoistej „republiki inteligenckiej”, osłabiona arystokracja i ziemianie zaczęli odgrywać rolę wewnętrznej inteligenckiej subelity. Potomkowie znanych rodzin arystokratycznych i ziemiańskich stali się istotną częścią elity inteligenckiej republiki, a związki z nimi można uznać za symboliczny probierz inteligenckich roszczeń do przywództwa obywatelskiego i moralne...