Nations in Transit 2001

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nations in transit 2001
How arc democraey and markét refbrms faring in East Central Europe and the former Soviet Unton* Is civil sodety expanding or shrinking? Are the média free or fettered by official comtraints* To what degrec are nations governed by the rule of law> Are humán rights re-spectcd? Do taxation and trade poltcies* property rights refbrms, banking law^ privatizationv and maeroeconomic policies encourage or encumber priváté sector development and economic growth?
In Nations in Tiranát 200K Freedom Housc asked leading régiónál specialista and iivhousc experts to answcr a chccklist of morc than 70 indicators for 27 post-Communist countries in tcn key arcas: political process; civil society; independent média; govcrnance and publtc administration; constitutionaK legislative and judicial framework; corruption; privatwation; maeroeconomie policy; mieroeconomic poliey; and social sector indicators, The survcy, organiied in a new essay formát* was reviewed by an ovcrsight... Tovább

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nations in transit 2001
How arc democraey and markét refbrms faring in East Central Europe and the former Soviet Unton* Is civil sodety expanding or shrinking? Are the média free or fettered by official comtraints* To what degrec are nations governed by the rule of law> Are humán rights re-spectcd? Do taxation and trade poltcies* property rights refbrms, banking law^ privatizationv and maeroeconomic policies encourage or encumber priváté sector development and economic growth?
In Nations in Tiranát 200K Freedom Housc asked leading régiónál specialista and iivhousc experts to answcr a chccklist of morc than 70 indicators for 27 post-Communist countries in tcn key arcas: political process; civil society; independent média; govcrnance and publtc administration; constitutionaK legislative and judicial framework; corruption; privatwation; maeroeconomie policy; mieroeconomic poliey; and social sector indicators, The survcy, organiied in a new essay formát* was reviewed by an ovcrsight board of leading U.S. scholars and by experts from Central and Kastem Europe and the íbrmcr Soviet Union.
The results are incisive* authori tative, and comprehensive country-by-country rcports that assess the progress of Kast Central European and tbrmer Soviet countries in ridding themselves of repressive political systems and inerticient statist economies. As an added dimension,, Freedom Housc—w hich tor ncarly 25 years has rated giobal political rights and civil iiberties in its benchmark Fmrdont in the World surveys—has developed a rating system that aIIown tor a comparative analysis of democratic and markét refbrms in the countries covered by the survcy.
XatiuHs in Transit 2001 is an invaluable resource and reference tool tor govcrnmcntal and nongovernmental in$titutions> sehools and universities, and anyone else interested in better understanding the political, economic,, and Icgal structures and institutions that eonstitute the infrastructure on which the transition to open societies and markets depends.
An esscntial tool for those concerned with the future of democratuing Kast Central Europe
and the newlv independent states of the Soviet Union____comprehensive and rcliable.
Zbigniew Brcezinski* Center for Strategic and International Studics
I am proud to be a trustec of Freedom Housc. I have long admired Freedom Housc and relied on Freedom Housc publications for a large variety of important intbrmation such as humán rights practices and the freedom index. Freedom Housc has demonstrated through decades since its fbunding a most extraordinary, consistent clear-headcd commitment to dcmocratic politics of free socictics.
leane Kirkpatrick* American Enterprise Institutc
Freedom Housc \ survey [ot trccvUun] is the mo»st systcmatk, most ctunprehcnsive, and most rcliable survey ol the indivkiuaPs status in the workfs political systems. Frtrdtm im $kt World provides an invaluable baseline in assessing the signiticancc of w orld events.
Róbert L, Kartky, Tkt Wall Stmt Jmrwtt Vissza