Conference Prague 1999

Contents : Jenn-hwan Wang: Civil Society, Democratization, and Governance in Taiwan - Éva Kuti: Contribution of Nonprofit Organizations to the Societal Transformation in Hungary: Achievements and Challenges - Pavol Fric: The State and Nonprofit Sector Development in the Czech Republic - Ladislav Machácek: Creation of Civil Society in Slovakia - Jiunn-rong Yeh: Constitutional Changes, Constitutionalism and Rule of Law in Taiwan: The Role of Council of Grand Justices - Yun-han Chu: Taiwan's Unique Path to Democracy - Vladimír Krivý: Slovakia: Political Development in the 90s - Michal Illner: The Protracted Reform of Territorial Government in the Czech Republic - Dace Jansone: Some Reflections about the Relationship between Central, Regional and Local Governments in Latvia - Chia-lung Lin: Taiwan's Emerging Civic Nationalism - Aivars Tabuns: Globalization and National Identity - Joanna Kurczewska: Nationalism in New Poland: Between Culture and Politics - Zuzana Kusá/Andrej Findor: Universal and Particular in Slovakian Troubles with National Identity Construction - Chin-Chun Yi: The Transition of Family Structure and Female Domestic Status in Taiwan - Anna Titkow: Women, Family and Paradoxes of Transformation - Magdalena Piscová: Changes in Family Patterns and Family Structure in the Context of Population Trends in Slovakia - Ludmila Fialová: New Phenomena in the Reproductive Behaviour of Young People in the Czech Republic in the 1990s - Pau-Ching Lu/Wan-I Lin: Social Welfare Policy in Taiwan: Past, Present and Prospects - Martin Potucek: The Czech Social Reform after 1989 - Concepts and Reality - Gejza Blaas: Transformation of Agriculture in Slovakia - Ming-chien Chen: Taiwan's Agricultural Development and Policy Options - Vìra Majerová: The Development of Czech Agriculture and Countryside from 1989 to 1999 - Talis Tisenkopfs: Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Latvia - György Lengyel: Forms of Capital and Entrepreneurship in Hungary - Soushan Wu: Lessons and Experience of the Recent Social - Financial Activities in Taiwan - Privatization and BOT - Éva Voszka: Privatization in Hungary 1988 - 1998 - Michal Mejstrík: Privatization, Foreign Investment and Corporate Governance in the Czech Republic - Jong-Tsun Huang: Education Reform in Taiwan: Egalitarianism vs. Elitism - Lenka Rovná: European Dimension of the Reform of the Higher Education in Pre-Accession Period in the Czech Republic.