TY - BOOK ID - 5241503 TI - Organizing democracy in Eastern Germany : interest groups in post-Communist society PY - 2000 SN - 0521651700 0521657032 1107117178 051117201X 0511003994 0511149832 0511309864 0511492057 1280420596 0511048084 9780511003998 0511032854 9780511032851 9780511149832 9780521651707 9780511492051 9780521657037 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Pressure groups KW - Groupes de pression KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5241503 AB - 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. ER -