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VII List of Tables and Figures Figure 1.1 The main line of causality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Figure 2.1 Strong and weak linkages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Table 5.1 Growth rates in socialism and capitalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Table 5.2 Growth before and after 1989, and after transformational recession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Table 5.3 Average growth rates for the years 1995–2003 . . . . . . . . . 88 Table 5.4 Electoral dismissals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Table 5.5 Comparison of characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Table 5.6 Distribution of income: Gini coefficient . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Table 5.7 Consumption inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Table 5.8 Total employment (1989 = 100) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Table 5.9 Unemployment rates (Percentage of labor force) . . . . . . . 108 Table 5.10 Crime rates (1989 = 100) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Table 5.11 Confidence in Parliament and other institutions . . . . . . . 110 Table 5.12 Life satisfaction over time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Table 5.13 Life-time satisfaction: Distribution of responses . . . . . . . . 112 Table 5.14 Attitudes to regime: Old, new, and future . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Table 5.15 A historical comparison with Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Table 5.16 Convergence times to Western Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Table 5.17 Endorsement of undemocratic alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Table 6.1 The share of the private sector in GDP . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Table 6.2 Values for the EBRD index of transition to the market economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Table 6.3 Employment features of the Hungarian elite after the change of system (1993), proportions already holding such positions in 1988 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Table 6.4 The proportion of former Communist-party members among the economic elite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Table 6.5 Proportions of former Communist-party members among the elites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Table 6.6 Proportions of private and state sectors in China . . . . . . . 149 Table 6.7 Proportions of transactions conducted at market prices in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Table 7.1 Survey of countries that counted as "socialist countries" in 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180–82 Table 8.1 The citation structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Table 8.2 Distribution of citations assignable to a specific discipline, percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 VIII L I S T O F T A B L E S A N D F I G U R E S ...

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