@article {62761,
	title = {The Ignored Transition: Post-Communist State Development},
	year = {2002},
	note = {WCFIA Working Paper 02{\textendash}02, March 2002.
},
	month = {Mar 1, 2002},
	abstract = {This study reconceptualizes theories of the state in light of post{\textendash}communist developments. After the collapse of communist regimes across Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, scholars overlooked a central aspect of the transition: the need to reconstruct public authority, or state{\textendash}building. Likewise, theorists of the state have largely ignored the post{\textendash}communist challenge to existing theories of state capacity and development. Post{\textendash}communist state development is characterized by the need to reconstruct public authority, or state{\textendash}building. Two aspects of this process determine subsequent state trajectories: a) the representativeness of elite competition (that is, whether elites compete by representing constituencies, or in self-contained elite conflicts), and b) the mechanisms of elite competition (that is, whether it is channeled via formal institutions, or informal networks and ties.)},
	author = {Anna Grzymala-Busse and Luong, Pauline Jones}
}
