Political Culture And Post Communism

Author : S. Whitefield
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230524620

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Political Culture and Post-Communism by S. Whitefield Pdf

Our understanding of the dynamics of Communist systems was substantially improved by taking political culture into account. But how much does the concept of political culture add to our empirical understanding of post-Communist Russia? The book's contributors engage with theoretical debates between political culture and competing 'rational choice' and institutionalist approaches to post-Soviet politics, and provide illustrative empirical studies of civic participation, views of national identity, the Russian criminal justice system and political violence.

Author : Michael Urban
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139490276

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Cultures of Power in Post-Communist Russia by Michael Urban Pdf

In Russian politics reliable information is scarce, formal relations are of relatively little significance, and things are seldom what they seem. Applying an original theory of political language to narratives taken from interviews with 34 of Russia's leading political figures, Michael Urban explores the ways in which political actors construct themselves with words. By tracing individual narratives back to the discourses available to speakers, he identifies what can and cannot be intelligibly said within the bounds of the country's political culture, and then documents how elites rely on the personal elements of political discourse at the expense of those addressed to the political community. Urban shows that this discursive orientation is congruent with social relations prevailing in Russia and helps to account for the fact that, despite two revolutions proclaiming democracy in the last century, Russia remains an authoritarian state.

Author : Detlef Pollack
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015052300566

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Political Culture in Post-communist Europe by Detlef Pollack Pdf

This text aims to sketch some of the challenging issues of the attitudinal dimension of system changes. It provides facts and figures on the progress of democratization in Central and Eastern Europe.

Author : Gert Pickel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138722065

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Political Culture in Post-Communist Europe by Gert Pickel Pdf

This title was first published in 2003. Engaging directly with some of the most important issues in contemporary politics, this volume deals with the role of political culture in democratic transitions, focusing in particular on democratization in Eastern and Central Europe. The central question is the relationship between institutional development and societal norms, and between the development of a superstructure of democratic proceduralism and the attitudes and responses of post-Communist republics. Surveying over ten years of experience of post-Communist change, the book draws upon a rich range of sources using quantitative survey data in a sophisticated and enlightening way. The rigorous methodology employed provides important insights into real processes in specific countries and allows for a number of generalizations to be made about the role of political culture today.

Author : Archie Brown,Jack Gray
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1979-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : NWU:35556001979814

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Political Culture and Political Change in Communist States by Archie Brown,Jack Gray Pdf

Author : Stephen White,Daniel N. Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 863 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351789172

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The Politics of the Postcommunist World by Stephen White,Daniel N. Nelson Pdf

This title was first published in 2001. This series brings together the most significant journal articles to appear in the field of comparative politics since the 1970s. The aim is to render accessible to teachers, researchers and students, an extensive range of essays as a basis for understanding established terrain and new ground.

Author : Terry D. Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315498720

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Beyond Post-communist Studies by Terry D. Clark Pdf

This book makes the case that several East Central European countries have emerged as fully consolidated democracies. As such, they may be integrated into the mainstream of political science research, and not consigned forever to a transitional category encompassing countries that are now fully democracies as well as some that are not democratic at all. The author outlines the steps of another transition - from post-communist studies to political science research. He demonstrates how institutionalist, or rational choice, theories can be applied to the analysis of political processes in the successfully democratized countries, and proposes a new research agenda for political scientists studying the region. The results of this work can enrich political science as well as our understanding of both democracy and the polities of contemporary Eastern Europe.

Author : Jr. Fleron,Erik P Hoffmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000307795

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Post-communist Studies And Political Science by Jr. Fleron,Erik P Hoffmann Pdf

Serious stock-taking is in progress now among practitioners of whathas been called Sovietology, meaning studies of the Union of SovietSocialist Republics. The reason is that the field for the most part hadnot been expecting what happened in 1991: The USSR collapsed andwent out of existence as a unified state system governing a sixth ofthe world's territory, having allowed its East European empire tofree itself from Soviet dominance somewhat earlier.It might be said in defense of Sovietology that, by the beginningof the 1980s, it understood that economic and political crises werebrewing in the Soviet Union and its outer empire. But the field asa whole failed to grasp the full depth of the systemic crisis in SovietRussia and the destructive or self-destructive potentialities inherentin it. As the editors of this valuable volume write in the Introduction:"Sovietology was not prepared for perestroika and postcommunism."

Author : Michael E. Urban
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Discourse analysis
ISBN : 1107204933

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Cultures of Power in Post-Communist Russia by Michael E. Urban Pdf

"In Russian politics reliable information is scarce, formal relations are of relatively little significance, and things are seldom what they seem. Applying an original theory of political language to narratives taken from interviews with 34 of Russia's leading political figures, Michael Urban explores the ways in which political actors construct themselves with words. By tracing individual narratives back to the discourses available to speakers, he identifies what can and cannot be intelligibly said within the bounds of the country's political culture, and then documents how elites rely on the personal elements of political discourse at the expense of those addressed to the political community. Urban shows that this discursive orientation is congruent with social relations prevailing in Russia and helps to account for the fact that, despite two revolutions proclaiming democracy in the last century, Russia remains an authoritarian state"--

Author : Michael Kraus,Ron Liebowitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000310559

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Russia And Eastern Europe After Communism by Michael Kraus,Ron Liebowitz Pdf

The conference on "Russia and East Europe in Transition," held at Middlebury College in May 1994 under the auspices of the Center for Russian and East European Studies, provided the impetus for this volume. The two-day gathering was made possible by a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education and the Jessica Swift Endowed Lecture Fund of Middlebury College, for which we are most grateful. Apart from the contributors to this volume, the conference participants included: George Bellerose, Raymond E. Benson, Valery Chalidze, Michael Claudon, David Colander, Guntram H. Herb, Lars Lib, Tamar Mayer, Noah M.J. Pickus, Sunder Ramaswamy, David A. Rosenberg, and Mitchell Smith. Acting as discussants, panel chairs, or interested participants, their efforts, individually and collectively, have made this a better book and their contribution to this project is gratefully acknowledged.

Author : David W. Lovell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351763349

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The Transition by David W. Lovell Pdf

This title was first published in 2002. This useful collection brings together scholars from diverse standpoints to examine the transition from Communism a decade after it began. The result is a book that illuminates the changes, and particularly the problems, that have accompanied attempts to introduce representative democracy and a viable market economy into formerly Communist states. Specialist chapters on the Former Soviet Union, Russia, Poland, Azerbaijan and the former East Germany, institutional accounts of postcommunist states and conceptual chapters result in this volume being ideally suited to university courses, policy makers and NGOs that have an interest in transition countries.

Author : Sabrina Petra Ramet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429710551

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Adaptation And Transformation In Communist And Post-communist Systems by Sabrina Petra Ramet Pdf

This book tackles different aspects of the adaptive and transformative process in communist and post-communist systems in Eastern Europe, offering competing models, which locate the explanatory variable in different places and account for the unfolding of change in different ways.

Author : Russell Francis Farnen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Democracy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029696916

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Democracies in Transition by Russell Francis Farnen Pdf

Author : Hans-Dieter Klingemann,Dieter Fuchs,Jan Zielonka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134170418

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Democracy and Political Culture in Eastern Europe by Hans-Dieter Klingemann,Dieter Fuchs,Jan Zielonka Pdf

What is the relationship between democracy and political culture in countries undergoing major systemic change? Have subjective political orientations of citizens been important in shaping the development of democracy in central and eastern Europe after the fall of communism? These core questions are tackled by an impressive range of twenty political scientists, sixteen of which are based in the central and eastern European countries covered in this essential new book. Their analyses draw on a unique set of data collected and processed by the contributors to this volume within the framework of the World Values Survey project. This data enables these authors to establish similarities and differences in support of democracy between a large number of countries with different cultural and structural conditions as well as historical legacies. The macro-level findings of the book tend to support the proposition that support of democracy declines the further east one goes. In contrast, micro-level relationships have been found to be astonishingly similar. For example, support of democracy is always positively related to higher levels of education – no matter where an individual citizen happens to live. This new book builds a clear understanding of what makes democracies strong and resistant to autocratic temptation.

Author : Klaus Beyme
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319015590

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On Political Culture, Cultural Policy, Art and Politics by Klaus Beyme Pdf

Klaus von Beyme is a distinguished German political scientist and recipient of the Mattei Dogan Award of Political Science (2012). In honour of his 80th birthday this book addresses political culture, cultural policy, art and politics. The first part on transformation theory analyses: “Historical Memories in Political Theories”, “Historical Memory in Nation-Building and the Building of Ethnic Subsystems”, “The Concept of Totalitarianism – A Reassessment After the Breakdown of Soviet Rule”, “Political Culture – A Concept from Ideological Refutation to Acceptance in the Soviet Social Sciences”, “Institutions and Political Culture in Post-Soviet Russia” and “Political and Economic Consolidation in Eastern Europe. Evidence from Empirical Data”. The second part on cultural policies addresses “Why is There No Political Science of the Arts?”, “Historical Memory and the Arts in the Era of the Avantgardes: Archaisme and Passéisme as a ‘passéisme of the future’”, and “Capital-building in Post-war Germany”.