State After Communism: administrative transitions in Central and Eastern Europe

This volume is intended as a potential tool for Central and Eastern European policy makers inside and outside the public sphere who are trying to craft a new model of government for the transition and beyond. Topics covered include: a) reinventing government administration in post-Communist Europe; b) breaking administrative deadlock in Poland; c) modernizing the Romanian state; d) Hungary's head start on reform; e) transforming the prototype for post-Soviet Russia; f) administrative transformation in the Former German Democratic Republic; and g) administrative change in Central and Eastern Europe.