In the years after the breakthrough events of 1989, the concept of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) came to be widely used as a synonym for the group of ten countries from the former Eastern Bloc aspi
Social scientists mostly from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland but also elsewhere in Eastern and Western Europe report the findings of a five-year research project on the link between democra
This book illustrates the applicability of the seminal and controversial metaphor of the «invisible hand» in modern sociological theory. It shows that sociologists have long been part of a field mainl