Review article
THEORIES OF TRANSFORMATION IN GERMANY 1990-2000. From the “Black Friday” of political science to the first political science handbook on the system transformation
Mirjana Kasapović
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The essay deals with the evolution of the theory of transformation in the German political science in the 1990s. This research was given fresh blood by the collapse of the communist systems in Eastern Europe. Realizing that the existing theories of transformation cannot be applied to Eastern European countries due to a plethora of important distinguishing features, German political scientists used two general starting points in their research. The first starting point is the theory of universal waves of democratization which focused its research on the application of comparative methods and comparative politics. The second starting point is the assumption that Eastern Europe is undergoing the social system change and not the political regime change, which enormously broadened the research scope. These general starting points gave rise to a series of studies which are among the best works from the field of the theory of transformation in contemporary political science. This also resulted in the first political science handbook on the theory of transformation.
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27086
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Publication date:
28.11.2000.
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