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State-building and institutional transplantation in post-communist countries

Abstract

The article discusses theoretical aspects of investigation of institutional transplantation effectiveness in the post-communist countries. It is focused on possibilities of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) for study of post-communist transformation on the basis of some results of research project about institutional transplantation effectiveness in those countries.

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Elena Meleshkina
Institute of Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Moscow State Institute of International Relations; National Research University Higher School of Economics
Russian Federation


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