Cover -- Front Matter -- title page -- copyright page -- Table of contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Reader’s Manual for QR codes -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Stubborn Structures -- 1.1. Guide to the Chapter -- 1.2. Thesis A: Regime Type Depends on the Separation of Spheres of Social Action -- 1.3. Thesis B: The Separation of Spheres Followed Civilizational Boundaries -- 1.4. Thesis C: Communist Dictatorships Arrested and Reversed the Separation of Spheres -- 1.5. Thesis D: Democratization Did Not Change the Separation of Spheres -- 1.6. Beyond Hybridology: A Triangular Conceptual Space of Regimes -- 2. State -- 2.1. Guide to the Chapter -- 2.2. General Definitions: The Basic Concepts of the Framework -- 2.3. The Dominant Principle of State Functioning -- 2.4. Conceptualization of States Running on Elite Interest -- 2.5. Challenges to the Monopoly of Violence -- 2.6. The Invisible Hand and the Grabbing Hand: A Comparative Framework for State Types -- 3. Actors -- 3.1. Guide to the Chapter -- 3.2. The Three Spheres of Social Action -- 3.3. Political Actors in the Three Polar Type Regimes -- 3.4. Economic Actors in the Three Polar Type Regimes -- 3.5. Communal Actors in the Three Polar Type Regimes -- 3.6. A Ruling Elite of Colluding Spheres: The Adopted Political Family -- 3.7. The Structure of Elites in the Six Ideal Type Regimes -- 4. Politics -- 4.1. Guide to the Chapter -- 4.2. Civil Legitimacy and the Interpretation of the Common Good -- 4.3. The Institutions of Public Deliberation in the Three Polar Type Regimes -- 4.4. Defensive Mechanisms: Stability, Erosion, and the Strategies of Consolidating Democracies andAutocracies -- 5. Economy -- 5.1. Guide to the Chapter -- 5.2. Relational Economics as a Challenger of the Neoclassical Synthesis -- 5.3. Relation -- 5.4. State Intervention -- 5.5. Ownership.
5.6. Comparative Economic Systems -- 6. Society -- 6.1. Guide to the Chapter -- 6.2. The Level of Social Structures: Networks and Societal Patronalization -- 6.3. The Stability of Power and Mass Political Persuasion -- 6.4. The Level of Discourses: Ideology and the Political Market -- 6.5. Modalities of Informal Governance: A Summary -- 7. Regimes -- 7.1. Guide to the Chapter -- 7.2. The Triangular Framework: Defining the Six Ideal Type Regimes -- 7.3. Regime Dynamics: A Typology with Modelled Trajectories of Twelve Post-Communist Countries -- 7.4. Beyond Regime Specificities: Country and Policy-Specific Features -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover.