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Between Past and Future: Elites, Democracy and the State in Post-Communist Countries

Author : Anton Steen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429512457
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Between Past and Future: Elites, Democracy and the State in Post-Communist Countries written by Anton Steen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1997, this text presents a specific interest in analyzing the role of the elites as a key factor for democratic rule and policy changes. In order to put the elites in perspective the author has also conducted opinion surveys asking some of the same questions among representative samples of the populations in the three countries. Comparing these three rather similar states gives possibilities for singling out conditions for specific national developments in elite structure and policies.

Between Past and Future: Elites, Democracy and the State in Post-Communist Countries

Author : ANTON. STEEN
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367197018
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Between Past and Future: Elites, Democracy and the State in Post-Communist Countries written by ANTON. STEEN and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1997, this text presents a specific interest in analyzing the role of the elites as a key factor for democratic rule and policy changes. Comparing these three states gives possibilities for singling out conditions for specific national developments in elite structure and policies.

The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes

Author : Bálint Magyar
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633863708
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes written by Bálint Magyar and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-20 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that characterize post-communist regimes, this is the most comprehensive work on the subject to date. Focusing on Central Europe, the post-Soviet countries and China, the study provides a systematic mapping of possible post-communist trajectories. At exploring the structural foundations of post-communist regime development, the work discusses the types of state, with an emphasis on informality and patronalism; the variety of actors in the political, economic, and communal spheres; the ways autocrats neutralize media, elections, etc. The analysis embraces the color revolutions of civil resistance (as in Georgia and in Ukraine) and the defensive mechanisms of democracy and autocracy; the evolution of corruption and the workings of “relational economy”; an analysis of China as “market-exploiting dictatorship”; the sociology of “clientage society”; and the instrumental use of ideology, with an emphasis on populism. Beyond a cataloguing of phenomena—actors, institutions, and dynamics of post-communist democracies, autocracies, and dictatorships—Magyar and Madlovics also conceptualize everything as building blocks to a larger, coherent structure: a new language for post-communist regimes. While being the most definitive book on the topic, the book is nevertheless written in an accessible style suitable for both beginners who wish to understand the logic of post-communism and scholars who are interested in original contributions to comparative regime theory. The book is equipped with QR codes that link to www.postcommunistregimes.com, which contains interactive, 3D supplementary material for teaching.

Between Past and Future

Author : Anton Steen
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Between Past and Future written by Anton Steen and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Communism's Shadow

Author : Grigore Pop-Eleches
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400887828
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Communism's Shadow written by Grigore Pop-Eleches and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has long been assumed that the historical legacy of Soviet Communism would have an important effect on post-communist states. However, prior research has focused primarily on the institutional legacy of communism. Communism's Shadow instead turns the focus to the individuals who inhabit post-communist countries, presenting a rigorous assessment of the legacy of communism on political attitudes. Post-communist citizens hold political, economic, and social opinions that consistently differ from individuals in other countries. Grigore Pop-Eleches and Joshua Tucker introduce two distinct frameworks to explain these differences, the first of which focuses on the effects of living in a post-communist country, and the second on living through communism. Drawing on large-scale research encompassing post-communist states and other countries around the globe, the authors demonstrate that living through communism has a clear, consistent influence on why citizens in post-communist countries are, on average, less supportive of democracy and markets and more supportive of state-provided social welfare. The longer citizens have lived through communism, especially as adults, the greater their support for beliefs associated with communist ideology—the one exception being opinions regarding gender equality. A thorough and nuanced examination of communist legacies' lasting influence on public opinion, Communism's Shadow highlights the ways in which political beliefs can outlast institutional regimes.

Elites and Democratic Development in Russia

Author : Vladimir Gel'man
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134399049
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Elites and Democratic Development in Russia written by Vladimir Gel'man and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates how elites have affected democratic development in Russia and how they influence the consolidation of the emerging political regime and post-communist patterns of behaviour and attitudes.

Parliamentary Elites in Central and Eastern Europe

Author : Elena Semenova
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317935322
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Parliamentary Elites in Central and Eastern Europe written by Elena Semenova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legislators are entrusted with key parliamentary functions and are important figures in the decision-making process. Their behaviour as political elites is as much responsible for the failures and successes of the new democracies as their institutional designs and constitutional reforms. This book provides a comparative examination of representative elites and their role in democratic development in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). It argues that as the drivers of the transformation process in CEE, individual and collective parliamentary actors matter. The authors provide an in-depth analysis of representatives from eleven national parliaments and explore country-specific features of recruitment and representation. They draw on an integrated dataset of parliamentary elites for individual, party family, and parliamentary variables over the 20 years following the collapse of Communism and develop a common framework for the analysis of variations in democratisation and political professionalisation between parliaments and political parties/party families across CEE. This unique volume will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative politics, elite research, post-communist politics, democratisation, legislative studies, and parliamentary representation.

Elite Configurations at the Apex of Power

Author : Mattéi Dogan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004128088
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Elite Configurations at the Apex of Power written by Mattéi Dogan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, prepared under the auspices of the IPSA Research Committee on Political Elites, focuses on the interpenetration between various types of elites. The contributions to this book reveal contrasting patterns of recruitment and selection in terms of career paths, visibility, influence, and power of different elite circles.

Political Elites and the New Russia

Author : Anton Steen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134392745
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Political Elites and the New Russia written by Anton Steen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Elite and the New Russia convincingly argues that although reforms in Russia have been initiated by those close to the President, in fact local and national elites have been the crucial strategic actors in reshaping Russia's economy, democratising its political system and decentralising its administration. This book analyses the role of elites under Yeltsin and Putin, discussing the extent to which they form a coherent political culture, and how far this culture has been in step with, or at odds with, the reform policies of the Kremlin leadership.

The Role of Local Political Elites in East Central Europe

Author : Roxana Marin
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
ISBN 13 : 3966659735
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (666 download)

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Book Synopsis The Role of Local Political Elites in East Central Europe by : Roxana Marin

Download or read book The Role of Local Political Elites in East Central Europe written by Roxana Marin and published by Verlag Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the elite continue to affect the evolution of local communities in the developing region of former Sovietized Europe? This book is concerned with the issue of local leadership in the countries of East-Central Europe. It is an attempt to examine, with a comparative method, the profile and the role of the local political elites (members of the Municipal Councils) in six towns in six transitional democracies of the region.

Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Parliaments

Author : Philip Norton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317998693
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Parliaments written by Philip Norton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sudden collapse of communism stimulated both the rapid emergence of fledgling democracies and scholarly attention to the post-communist transition. These newly democratized parliaments have been described as "parliaments in adolescence". This book identifies six parliaments which exemplify the wide range of developments in the new post-communist political systems, from the stable consolidated democracies to the less stable and more authoritarian states, within which their respective parliaments function. Finally the post-communist parliaments are compared with the presumptively more established west European parliaments. This book bridges the usual gap in research between the post-communist parliaments and more "normal" democratic parliaments to develop a common legislative research perspective on both new and established parliaments. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies.

Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior

Author : Russell J. Dalton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199270120
Total Pages : 1010 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior written by Russell J. Dalton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. Each volume focuses on a particular part of the discipline, with volumes on Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Economy, Contextual Political Analysis, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Law and Politics, Political Behavior, Political Institutions, and Political Methodology. The project as a whole is under the General Editorship of Robert E. Goodin, with each volume being edited by a distinguished international group of specialists in their respective fields. The books set out not just to report on the discipline, but to shape it. The series will be an indispensable point of reference for anyone working in political science and adjacent disciplines. What does democracy expect of its citizens, and how do the citizenry match these expectations? This Oxford Handbook examines the role of the citizen in contemporary politics, based on essays from the world's leading scholars of political behavior research. The recent expansion of democracy has both given new rights and created new responsibilities for the citizenry. These political changes are paralleled by tremendous advances in our empirical knowledge of citizens and their behaviors through the institutionalization of systematic, comparative study of contemporary publics--ranging from the advanced industrial democracies to the emerging democracies of Central and Eastern Europe, to new survey research on the developing world. These essays describe how citizens think about politics, how their values shape their behavior, the patterns of participation, the sources of vote choice, and how public opinion impacts on governing and public policy. This is the most comprehensive review of the cross-national literature of citizen behavior and the relationship between citizens and their governments. It will become the first point of reference for scholars and students interested in these key issues.

The Baltic Transformed

Author : Walter C. Clemens
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0847698599
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book The Baltic Transformed written by Walter C. Clemens and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why isn't the Baltic region like the Balkans? Why have the Baltic republics not experienced ethnic cleansing, border wars, authoritarian rule, and social chaos? Instead, peace, democracy, and market economies have taken root since the fall of communism. Walter C. Clemens, Jr. here uses complexity theory, which analyzes the role of self-organization in complex adaptive systems, to explain the "Baltic miracle." He argues that the theory is a vital tool for understanding the remarkable strides made by Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania since 1991 in coping with the transition to partnership with the new Europe. The Baltic peoples have adapted well to the demands of democracy, a market economy, and a constructive role in world affairs. The achievements of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in the past decade are the more amazing when considered against the hundreds of years they were dominated by Teutonic knights, Hanseatic merchants, Sweden, Russia, and the USSR. Clemens uses this history as a springboard to analyze how Balts self-organize today to meet the challenges of transition. One of the first books to apply complexity theory to a major sphere of world politics, The Baltic Transformed will provoke constructive debate with its ambitious and well-grounded analysis of not only Baltic developments but European security more generally. Despite its theoretical foundation, the book is written in a clear and accessible style that will make it invaluable for courses on comparative politics, political development, international relations, security, or transition studies.

Democratic Elitism

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047441745
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Democratic Elitism written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-01-11 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Schumpeter's “competitive theory of democracy” – often labeled democratic elitism - has struck many as an apt and insightful description of how representative democracy works, even though convinced democrats detect an elitist thrust they find disturbing. But neither Schumpeter nor subsequent defenders of democratic elitism have paid enough attention to actual behaviors of leaders and elites. Attention has been riveted on how adequately democratic elitism captures the relationship between governors and governed in its insistence that competitive elections prevent the relationship from being one-way, that is, leaders and elites largely unaccountable to passive and submissive voters. Why and how leaders and elites create and sustain competitive elections, what happens if their competitions become excessively stage-managed or belligerent – how, in short, leaders and elites really act - are some of the issues this book addresses. Contributors are Heinrich Best, Jens Borchert, Michael Edinger, Fredrik Engelstad, Trygve Gulbrandsen, John Higley, Gabriella Ilonszki, András Körösényi, Mindaugas Kuklys, Gyorgy Lengyel, Anton Steen, and Jacek Wasilewski.

Democracy and Democratization

Author : John D Nagle
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0857026232
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Democratization written by John D Nagle and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-05-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging overview of the processes of democratization in post-Communist Europe, places the transitions in East-Central Europe within a broad European and global context. The authors begin with a introduction to the concept and theories of democracy and then examine the emerging politics of the new democracies to set the post-Communist transitions in longer-term comparative perspective with earlier and existing processes of democratization in Southern Europe, Latin America, and East and Southeast Asia. Finally the politics of EU accession are introduced to place the transitions within the wider context of European integration. Concluding with a summary of recent critiques of modern democracy and looking toward future theories, this text provides a comprehensive introduction to what will remain the key contemporary issue for all students of political science.

The Russian Minorities in the Former Soviet Republics

Author : Anna Batta
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000485579
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Russian Minorities in the Former Soviet Republics written by Anna Batta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the differing treatment of Russian minorities in the non-Russian republics which seceded from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Providing detailed case studies, it explains why intervention by Russia occurred in the case of Ukraine, despite Ukraine’s benevolent and inclusive treatment of the large Russian minority, whereas in other republics with less benevolent approaches to minorities intervention did not occur, for example Kazakhstan, where discrimination against the Russian minority increased over time, and Latvia, where the country on its accession to the European Union was deemed to have good minority rights protection, despite a record of discrimination against the Russian minority. Throughout the book emphasises the importance of the perceptions of the republic government regarding the interaction between the minority’s kin-state and the minority, the role that minorities played within the nation-building process and after secession, and the dual threat coming from both the domestic and international spheres.

The European Union and the Baltic States

Author : Bengt Jacobsson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135211906
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The European Union and the Baltic States written by Bengt Jacobsson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the Baltic States have adapted to, and been embedded in, a wider European environment and how they have become modern European states. It focuses on changes in the policies, politics and administrative practices that have taken place after 1991 in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and on the influence of rules and ideas in the European Union. The authors investigate the meeting between national traditions, rule-making and practices – on the one hand; and traditions, rule-making and practices connected to the European Union – on the other. Drawing on organization theory, and the image of states as complex and fragmented organizations, this book discusses: The forms of governance that are directed towards states, differentiating between regulative, inquisitive and meditative activities. The logic of appropriateness and the scriptedness of states. To what extent do the states have to follow the rules, and to what extent are they able to do what they want themselves? Adaptation processes in the state organizations. This book examines how European integration prompts and accelerates new forms of governance in Europe; it will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, the European Union and the Baltic states.