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Professor Martin Myant
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e-mail: martin.myant@uws.ac.uk
Martin Myant, a specialist on Czech and Slovak economic and political developments, graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in Economics and later completed a PhD in modern Czechoslovak history at the University of Glasgow 's Institute for Russian and East European Studies. Professor Myant has written extensively on economic and political conditions in Central and Eastern Europe both during the era of the centrally-planned economy and afterwards. Although mainly concerned with the Czech Republic and Slovakia and before the 1993, Czechoslovakia , he has also written on other countries in the area including the former German Democratic Republic and Poland . He has contributed to the Economist Intelligence Unit and co-ordinated two ACE research projects. Recent and ongoing research activities centre on regional development in North-West Bohemia, the impact on Czech social and economic development of the Social Democrat-dominated governments since 1998, varieties of capitalism and political economy in post-communist countries.
Selected Publications
‘International Integration, Varieties of Capitalism and Resilience to Crisis in Transition Economies’, with Jan Drahokoupil, Europe-Asia Studies Vol.64, No.1, 2012, available here
Transition economies: Political economy in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, (with Jan Drahokoupil), Wiley, ISBN: 978-0-470-59619-7, 2010.
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'Trade Union Influence in the Czech Republic since 1989', Czech Sociological Review, 2010, Vol. 46, No. 6: 889–911, available here
Trade unions in the Czech Republic Martin Myant european trade union institute, report 115, 2010.
More information at: european trade union institute's website
Video
Czech Economy: An Interview with Martin Myant (University of the West of Scotland)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67Lhbq1YNMk
MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS
‘The politics of welfare restructuring in transition countries and the crisis of 2008’ (with Jan Drahokoupil), in Ipek Eren Vural (ed.), Converging Europe Transformation of Social Policy in the Enlarged European Union and in Turkey, Farnham: Ashgate, 2011.
‘Central Asian Countries: Forms of International Integration and the Impact of the Crisis of 2008’ (with Jan Drahokoupil), in Joachim Ahrens and Herman Hoen (eds), Institutional Reform in CentralAsia: Politico-Economic Challenges, Abingdon: Routledge, 2012.
‘The European sub-prime? Financial crisis and the East-European periphery’, (with Jan Drahokoupil), in Petros Nousios, Henk Overbeek and Andreas Tsolakis (eds), Globalisation and European Integration, Abigdon: Routledge, 2012.
The following papers can be accessed online by clicking here:
Varieties of Capitalism, Varieties of Vulnerabilities: Financial Crisis and its Impact on Welfare States in Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (with Jan Drahokoupil)
The Political Economy of Welfare Reforms in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (with Jan Drahokoupil)
International Integration and Resilience to Crisis in Transition Economies (with Jan Drahokoupil)
International Integration and the Structure of Exports in Central Asian Republics, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Vol. 49, No. 5, pp. 604-622, 2008 (with Jan Drahokoupil)
Varieties of Capitalism in Transition Economies (with Jan Drahokoupil)
Central Asian Republics: Forms of International Integration and the Impact of the Crisis of 2008, INSTITUTIONS, INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE IN CENTRAL ASIA, J. Ahrens & H. W. Hoen, eds.,London: Routledge, Forthcoming (with Jan Drahokoupil)
Regional Theory and Regional Development: The Example of the Ústecký Region in North West Bohemia, AUPO Geographica, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 25-43, 2009.
Regional development and post-communist politics in a Czech region, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 58, No.2, March 2006
Klaus, Havel and civil society, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol.21, No.2, June 2005
The Rise and Fall of Czech Capitalism: Economic Development in the Czech Republic since 1989, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2003.
'Czech Banking in comparative perspective', Prague Economic Papers, Vol. 12, No.2, 2003.
'A comparative view: the experience of east-central Europe', in David Lane (ed.), Russian Banking: Evolution, Problems and Prospects, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham , 2002.
Transforming Socialist Economies: The Case of Poland and Czechoslovakia , (Edward Elgar, Aldershot 1993).
The Czechoslovak Economy 1948-1988: The Battle for Economic Reform, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,1989).
Poland : A Crisis for Socialism, Lawrence and Wishart: London, 1982.
Socialism and Democracy in Czechoslovakia 1945-1948, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge,1981.