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  1. A Model in the Desert: Modernization, Advanced Liberalism, and Child Protection Reform in Postcommunist Romania.Marian Negoita - 2010 - Politics and Society 38 (1):95-117.
    In this article, the author examines Romanian child protection reforms during European Union accession as a case of externally facilitated modernization aimed at solving acute social problems. The data for this case study came primarily from fifty-three unstructured interviews with civil servants, civil society representatives, and EU officials. The author finds that in a similar manner to other externally driven modernization projects, the belief according to which Western institutions constituted a universal blueprint, applicable regardless of particular contexts and historical legacies, (...)
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  • Romantic and Enlightenment Legacies: Habermas and the Post-Modern Critics.Pauline Johnson - 2006 - Contemporary Political Theory 5 (1):68-90.
    Wisdom, Hegel famously said, only flies at dusk. For many, the evening of the liberal-democratic nation state appears to be descending in a globalizing world. This disturbing prospect invites urgent reflection on which of the potentials of this fading order ought to be carried forward. In this climate of review and reassessment, discussions that had seemed done with re-surface sharpened by fresh purpose. The following paper attempts to put new light on a once vigorous dispute between Habermas and his post-modern (...)
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  • Post-Communist Modernization, Transition Studies, and Diversity in Europe.Paul Blokker - 2005 - European Journal of Social Theory 8 (4):503-525.
    The majority of studies of post-communism – habitually grouped under the heading of 'transitology' – understand the transition ultimately as a political and cultural convergence of the ex-communist societies with Western Europe. Even those critical approaches that regard the post-communist transition as a relatively unique phenomenon (as in the approaches of path dependency and neo-classical sociology) tend to conflate normative prescriptions with empirical descriptions and to move within an overall framework of what Michael Kennedy has aptly called 'transition culture'. This (...)
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