Research Overviews ¬ Three Social Science Disciplines in Central and Eastern Europe.

Three Social Science Disciplines in Central and Eeastern Europe: Handbook on Economics, Political Science and Sociology (1989-2001). Includes bibliographical references, index and institution CD-ROM

Max Kaase, Vera Sparschuh (Eds.), Agnieszka Wenninger (co-editor)

Berlin/Bonn/Budapest 2002, 668 pages
ISBN 3-8206-0139-2
44,90  EUR

This volume documents development of economics, political science and sociology in Central and Eastern Europe EU accession countries from 1989 to 2001, with a special emphasis on research. Additionally, the recent situation of anthropology, demography, and legal studies is reviewed, though not in the same detail as the three disciplines mentioned first. The project on which the handbook is based was undertaken at Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Study in cooperation with the GESIS/Social Science Information Centre (Branch Office Berlin), and supported by the European Commission.

It is dedicated to the enhancement of worldwide information and communication on Central and Eastern European social sciences, the improvement of options for cooperation in comparative research involving CEE countries, and the spread of information on and access to capable CEE social science research institutions.

A CD-ROM enclosed in the handbook presents an overview on Central and Eastern European institutions in the respective countries relevant for economics, political sciences, and sociology (about 700 institutions). This CD-ROM was designed and prepared by the GESIS Service Agency Eastern Europe and permits direct access to the database INEastE in the Internet. 

The reports from the handbook can be viewed online on the "Knowledge Base Social Sciences in Eastern Europe" website  at: http://www.cee-socialscience.net.

Content:

• Ulrike Becker, Max Kaase, Gábor Klaniczay, and Vera Sparschuh: Social Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe on the Verge of EU Enlargement

Introductory essays

• Andrei Pleşu: Financing Difference: Fostering the Social Sciences in the Field of Tension Between Homogenization and Differentiation
• Elemér Hankiss: Brilliant Ideas or Brilliant Errors?

Economics

• János Mátyás Kovács: Business as (Un)usual
• Mitko Dimitrov: Bulgaria
• František Turnovec: Czech Republic
• Tiia Püss: Estonia
• László Csaba: Hungary
• Raita Karnite: Latvia
• Linas Čekanavičius: Lithuania
• Tadeusz Kowalik: Poland
• Paul Dragos Aligica: Romania
• Július Horváth: Slovakia
• Jože Mencinger: Slovenia
• Hans-Jürgen Wagener: Demand and Supply of Economic Knowledge in Transition Countries

Political Science

• Hans-Dieter Klingemann: Political Science in Central and Eastern Europe: National Development and International Integration
• Georgi Karasimeonov: Bulgaria
• Jan Holzer and Pavel Pšeja: Czech Republic
• Raivo Vetik: Estonia
• Máté Szabó: Hungary
• Andris Runcis: Latvia
• Algis Krupavičius: Lithuania
• Stanisław Gebethner and Radosław Markowski: Poland
• Daniel Barbu: Romania
• Darina Malová and Silvia Miháliková: Slovakia
• Danica Fink-Hafner: Slovenia

Sociology

• Pál Tamás: Followers or Activists? Social Scientists in the Reality Shows of Transformation
• Nikolai Genov: Bulgaria
• Michal Illner: Czech Republic
• Mikk Titma: Estonia
• Dénes Némedi and Péter Róbert: Hungary
• Aivars Tabuns: Latvia
• Anelė Vosyliūtė: Lithuania
• Janusz Mucha and Paweł Załęcki: Poland
• Maria Larionescu: Romania
• Zuzana Kusá, Bohumil Búzik, Ľudovít Turčan and Robert Klobucký: Slovakia
• Frane Adam and Matej Makarovič: Slovenia
• Piotr Sztompka: The Condition of Sociology in East-Central Europe

Other disciplines

• Mihály Sárkány: Cultural and Social Anthropology in Central and Eastern Europe
• Tomáš Kučera and Olga Kučerová: Population science in Central and Eastern Europe: Implications for Research and Practice
• Marie-Claude Maurel: Central European Geography and the Post Socialist Transformation. A Western Point of View
• Grażyna Skąpska: Law and Society in a Natural Laboratory: the Case of Poland in the Broader Context of East-Central Europe

Index

• Institutions
• Names

Appendix

• List of participants
• Institutions responsible for the handbook edition

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Research Overviews ¬ Three Social Science Disciplines in Central and Eastern Europe