The Policy Process in Communist States: Politics and Industrial Administration (SAGE Library of Social Research) - Softcover

Holmes, Leslie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803916477 ISBN 13: 9780803916470

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1981

Synopsis

Holmes presents a comparative study of the policy process in two communist states -- the USSR and the GDR -- as it is revealed in the rise in both countries of industrial associations. He compares the background to the 1973 legislation in both countries, its passing, and its practical results to answer such questions as; do there appear to be general laws governing the development of these two states? How does policy become reality in them? What differences exist between them?

′Holmes′ study is systematic and painstaking, reflecting his detailed research in published Russian and East German sources as well as several extended interviews with Soviet economic officials...What he seems to show is that, within the framework provided by a common set of problems and closely similar economic and political structures, industrial administration policies in the two states evolved in substantially distinct ways.′ -- Communist Affairs, Vol 1 No 3, July 1982

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803916477
• ISBN 13: 9780803916470
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 309