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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Hanisch, Markus; Laschewski, Lutz |
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Conference:
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Institutional Analysis and Development Mini-Conference and TransCoop Meeting |
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Location:
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Bloomington, Indiana |
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Conf. Date:
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December |
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Date:
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2002 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/9313
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Sector:
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Agriculture
Social Organization |
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Region:
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Europe |
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Subject(s):
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social capital
agrarian reform
new institutionalism
socialism
networks
institutional economics
transitional economics
institutional analysis
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Abstract:
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"The idea of the paper is to comparatively reflect the basic findings of our empirical research on rural restructuring in CEECs and Eastern Germany in the light of both, The New Institutional Economics and The Social Capital Thesis, both taken as heuristic concepts. We identify two pathways, we can observe as rather extreme outcomes of the restructuring process, as network strategies. From a network perspective both pathways describe unsatisfactory network strategies. From a network perspective both pathways describe unsatisfactory network structures. To understand the implications, we change the theoretical perspective and argue along a simple choice model. Along that model, we discuss the question of which elements in the structures we observe are responsible for our pessimistic assessment of the future perspectives of these strategies. This leads us to the some theoretical aspects of a research agenda on how to consider and normatively assess network structures. This research agenda is meant to be a contribution to further discussion about research objectives and methodology of workgroup three of the Transcoop project."
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