The Political Economy of Poland’s Transition波兰社会转变背后的政治经济问题

2005-6  

Jackson, John E.; Klich, Jacek; Poznanska, Krystyna  

277  

In the time span of a two-term US presidency, Poland went from an authoritarian one-party state with a faltering centrally planned economy to become a relatively stable multiparty democracy and a market economy with one of the highest GDP growth rates in Europe. A central feature of these economic and political reforms is a high rate of entry of new, domestically owned firms. This book uses detailed economic and political data to examine how these new firms contributed to the Polish transition. The authors test propositions about why some regions have more new firms than others and how the success of these new firms contributed to political constituencies that supported economically liberal parties. The book concludes by contrasting the Polish with the experiences of other transitional countries.

List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1 Why Poland? 2 The Dynamics of the Polish Political Economy, 1990-1997 APPENDIX 2A: DATA ON FIRM DYNAMICS AND CREATION 3 Creative Destruction and Economic Transition APPENDIX 3A: MODELS FOR BIRTH, SURVIVAL, AND GROWTH RATES AND WAGES 4 The Social and Distributional Costs of Transition 5 Individual Attitudes and Voting 122 APPENDIX 5A: CODING OF PRIVATE CONFIDENCE AND COMMUNISM MEASURES APPENDIX 5B: STATISTICAL MODEL OF INDIVIDUAL VOTE CHOICES APPENDIX 5C: CANDIDATE POLICIES AND INDIVIDUAL VOTING 6 De Novo Job Creation and Election Returns APPENDIX 6A: ESTIMATED ELECTION AND VOTE SHARE MODELS 7 Liberal Economic Interests and Seat Allocations APPENDIX 7A: ANALYSIS OF VOTES-TO-SEATS RULES 8 The Political Economy after 1997 9 The Political Economy of Transition: Why Poland? Appendix A: Assessing Measures of New and Small Firms in Poland References Index

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