'If political economy, i.e. the interdisciplinary study of interrelationships between political institutions and economic systems, has ever made sense, it is exactly now. Hardly any better example of mutual influence and co-determination between political

This book is about long-term changes to class and inequality in Poland. Drawing upon major social surveys, the team of authors from the Polish Academy of Sciences offer the rare comprehensive study of important changes to the social structure from the com

This book presents pieces of evidence, which û taken together û lead to an argument that goes against the grain of the established Cold War narrative. The argument is that a ôlong dΘtenteö existed between East and West from the 1950s to the 1980s, that it

The common critique of media- and ratings-driven politics envisions democracy falling hostage to a popularity contest. By contrast, the following book reconceives politics as a speculative Keynesian beauty contest that alienates itself from the popular au

This book compares the results of twenty years of international media assistance in the five countries of the western Balkans. It asks what happens to imported models when they are applied to newly evolving media systems in societies in transition. The b

This detailed history of the Vyatka region is divided into two parts. the first examines the region's history and its connections to the rest of Russia and other countries. In the second part, the authors examine traditional folk clothing, the various ethnic groups and their relations inside the region.

Market Society in the Visegrad States. Karl Polanyi's ôsubstantivistö critique of market society has found new popularity in the era of neoliberal globalization. The author reclaims this polymath for contemporary anthropology, especially economic anthropo