Preface to English Edition 11 Introduction (Michal Kopecek) 15 Neoliberal hegemony as a hypothesis 17 Experts in existing social-science and historical research 25 What the reader will find in the book 36 Acknowledgements 46 Ruling by Law: Czech Jurisprudence from "Repressive Legality" to the Rule of Law, 1969-1994 (Michal Kopecek) 53 From Stalinist "jurisprudence of terror" to the "civic socialism" of the Prague Spring 60 The normalisation of rule: jurisprudence and "socialist legality" as instruments to manage and discipline society under the Husák regime 67 "The rule of law" in the name of socialism? 83 Legalistic revolutions, legal continuity and the origins of liberal constitutionalism 99 Conclusion 114 Enterprise Management in Czechoslovakia from Socialism to Capitalism (Tomás Vilímek) 129 From "purges" to perestroika - socialist managers in the 1969-1985 period 132 From "restructuring" to demolition - corporate management at the end of the 1980s 136 The functions and position of the enterprise manager before 1989 149 Produce or "play the plan parameters game" 151 Political commitment and creating the impression of "a trustworthy comrade" 154 Enterprise management and the intra-enterprise coalition 161 The post-socialist manager "under fire" in the early 1990s 165 From the Socialist Theory of Management to Neo-Liberal Managerialism (Michal Kopecek and Václav Rames) 193 The boom of socialist management theory in Czechoslovakia 201 The socialist management theory of the 1970s and early 1980s 204 From "socialist competition" to the "sense of being a socialist manager": management theory at the time of perestroika 209 Management science at the time of building capitalism after the democratic revolution 213 Conclusion 219 The Transformation of Socialist Man into the Liberal Individual? (Adéla Gjuricová) 231 More prolific than one might think 238 Advantages of invisibility 243 At what price? 248 Against hierarchies 252 The golden nineties 256 Therapeutisation: it is a question of where and how 259 Criticism, Management and Business: Social Research and Sociology as Tools of Governance in Czechoslovakia after 1969 (Michal Kopecek) 271 Social research and sociology as part of authoritarian governance in late socialism 277 The sociology of the socialist enterprise and public opinion research 284 From a sociology of socialist lifestyle to a civil society paradigm? 291 "Social therapy" or a critical mirror of society? Sociology in the liberal democracy of the early 1990s 301 Conclusion 318 Between Science and Politics: Ecology in Socialism and Capitalism (Matej Spurný) 331 Man and his home: the transformation of sensibilities at the end of industrial modernity 340 Contradictions in the relationship of state socialist governance to environmental protection 343 Experts, activists, dissidents and social movements before November 1989 351 Averting catastrophe: ecology''s finest hour at the turn of the 1990s 363 The star fades 367 Ecology between marginalization and economization 371 Conclusion 380 Planning Prague in the 1980s-1990s: The Self-Destruction of Urban Planning Expertise (Petr Roubal) 391 The crisis of modern socialist urban planning 393 Perestroika and the Prague city planning discourse 402 The Battle over zizkov and Stromovka 407 Anti-communist urbanism: planning expertise after 1989 419 Conclusion 431 List of Abbreviations 441 About the Authors 442.