ENLARGEMENT OF POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DEMOCRATIZATION IN POST-COMMUNIST EUROPEAN REGIONS

Author Name: AnandaMajumdar

Volume: 01 &  Issue:

Country: CANADA

DOI NO.: NA, DOI Link: http://doi-ds.org/doilink/08.2020-25662434/

Affiliation:

1. Student, Department of Education & Interdisciplinary Research, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
   E-mail:anandamajumdar2004@yahoo.co.uk

ABSTRACT

Political and Economic transformation of post-Communist Europe had identified as highly successful in Central and Eastern Europe but the discussion is not only Central and Eastern Europe, it has been divided into four different regions for the observation after 1989. The first region is Central Europe with Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia and Slovakia. The Second region in Southern Europe with Romania, Croatia, Bulgaria, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (current Serbia and Montenegro). The third region is Northern Europe with Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia (also called the Baltics region of Europe). The fourth region is Eastern Europe with the Russian Federation, the Ukraine, and Belarus. Economic transformation was highly developed in Central and Eastern Europe, and Southern Europe as well. A political change had observed instead of political development (nation-building, membership of the political parties, constitutional practices, emergence of strong civil society- lack of political development). Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic had consolidated democracy (more than 60 percentages of democrats' people). The article aims to know about the social, economic and political changes in post-Communist European countries (1989-1998 and further) and to share with others for knowledge and education. The outcome of the article has been achieved by the exploration of various indexes that helped for a liberal society and economy based on freedom, dignity and human rights in the regions. Feature question is, how neo-liberalism worked in the regions? More articles will be written in the future.

Key words: Market Economy, post-Communist Europe, Socialist Constitutionalism, Households Economy, Democracy, Enlargement of European identity