Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: theorizing the changes in East-Central Europe -- After the patronage state: a model in search of class interests -- In pursuit of the democratic interest: the institutionalization of parties and interests in Eastern Europe -- Economic utopianism and sociological realism: strategies for transformation in East-Central Europe -- Values and the welfare state in Czechoslovakia -- Revolution and restoration: on the origins of right-wing radical ideology in Hungary -- The power structure in Hungary after the political transition -- Privatization in East-Central Europe: similarities and contrasts in its application -- The great transformation and privatization: three years of Polish experience -- The great deformation: Polanyi, Poland and the terrors of planned spontaneity -- Is there an alternative to market utopianism? A comment on Glasman -- Index.