Office Phone and Fax Number: +36 30 816 42 60; +36 1 319 31 36 Office e-mail address: csanadi@econ.core.hu Detailed CV Selected Publications

Maria Csanádi is a research advisor at the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences -- her Phd is in political science. Her main research interest is the comparative political economy of communist systems both on empirical and on theoretical grounds. She has constructed a bottom-up comparative model called Interactive Party-state (IPS) model on the characteristics of the structure and dynamics of self-reproduction, traps and transformation of party-state (communist) systems based on the network formed by the interrelationship of party- state and economic decision.-makers. This IPS model serves also as an instrument to empirical analysis of these systems. Her book "Party-states and their Legacies in Post-communist Transformation" was published in Hungarian, English and Chinese. Her present book titled "Self-consuming Evolutions" describes the model in its whole complexity and demonstrates its functioning as an empirical analytical tool through three case-studies (Romania, Hungary and China). Her papers were published in journals like Social Research, Behavioral Science, East European Politics and Society, Communist Economies and Economics of Transformation.