The emergence of interest group politics is one of the decisive
factors in democratic transformation in post-communist society.
Stephen Padgett argues that evidence from eastern Germany suggests
that market transition produces rather open and fluid societies, in
which group interests and identities are tenuous. Lacking a
supportive social infrastructure, interest groups operate on
'entrepreneurial' lines, a form of associational activity which
falls far short of pluralist ideals. With its accelerated
transition to a market economy, eastern Germany provides a
'fast-forward' study of an 'advanced post-communist society' which
enables us to anticipate the social structures and issues shaping
interest-group politics in the newly-democratizing states of
east-central Europe. Examining a number of different interest
groups, and comparing a number of countries across east-central
Europe, this book may also offer a vision of the future of
interest-group politics in the West.
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