List of Tables Preface Notes on the Editors and Contributors PART ONE: INTRODUCTION On Appropriate Models for Transformation in Eastern Europe; J.Henderson PART TWO: TRANSFORMATION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Social and Political Dimensions of Economic Transformation: Eastern Europe and Pacific Asia; J.Henderson & R.Whitley Industrial Transformation in East-Central Europe and East Asia: Should the State Whither Away?; W.Andreff Privatization and the State: Russia, Eastern Europe, East Asia; N.Harris & D.Lockwood The Starting Point of Liberalization: China and the Former USSR on the Eve of Reform; P.Nolan Institutional Change and Economic Development in East-Central Europe and China: Contrasts in the Light of the 'East Asian Model'; D.Lo & H.Radice PART THREE: NATIONAL SPECIFICITIES Institutional Foundations of Robust Economic Performance: Public Sector Industrial Growth in China; V.Nee & S.Su The Developmental Alliance for Industrialization in East Asia: State and Business in South Korea and Taiwan; E.M.Kim Enterprise Strategies and Labour Relations in Central and Eastern Europe; S.Vickerstaff, J.Thirkell & R.Scase Ideologies, Economic Policies and Social Change: the Cyclical Nature of Hungary's Transformation; L.Czaban Index