Civil Society as Driving Force of Economic Transformations: the Methodological Aspect

Abstract

The improvement of the efficiency of transformations of the national economic system leads to the attraction to the reformist practices of factors which can cause the synergistic and multiplicating influence. Development of civil society is a special place in this context. The article generalizes the latest theoretical approaches to research of the influence of civil society on the institutional transformations of economy. Traditionally, civil society is viewed by means of the functional neoclassical paradigm, i.e.: micro-and macroeconomic analysis. The significant methodological potential and practical significance of research on this phenomenon belongs to the new institutional theory, which focuses on the mechanisms of transformations through interaction of actors, and the concept of inclusive institutions, allowing to rethink economic history as a basis of possible future transformational trajectories, define necessary stages of transformations in economic systems of limited access to resources, taking into consideration the interaction of economic and political institutions.

Keywords

• civil society
• factors of economic transformations
• inclusive institutions