State and Society in Post-Socialist Economies comprises original essays by authors from Western, Central and Eastern Europe, the US, and Japan who have been shaping recent debates about economic governance, regime theory, and the social economy. Each is concerned with one or other aspect of how we are to understand economic transformations in post-socialist and post-soviet economies. The volume takes as it central concern the important relationships between the state and society and its role in shaping the nature of economic lives and practices in post-socialist and post-soviet regions, and with the ways in which various disciplines have attempted to address these various economic regimes and governance systems. The volume is thus aimed to be a contribution to what we might call the fourth wave of transition studies; a movement that has begun to recognize and pay more attention to the complexities of the social economy, with its historical legacies, social and class forms, and its intense relationships with the forms of regional, national, and transnational systems of governance that now shape the diverse economies of the region.