Political culture in post-communist Europe : attitudes in new democracies

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Political culture in post-communist Europe : attitudes in new democracies

edited by Detlef Pollack ...[et al.]

Ashgate, c2003

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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 contemporary political culture.

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  • The Political Culture Approach and Democratization: Culture as destiny, Lucian W. Pye
  • Political culture and democratization - the Russian case in comparative perspectives, Archie Brown. New Democracies in the Process of Consolidation: Political culture in East-Central and Eastern Europe - empirical findings 1990-2001, Peter A. Ulram and Fritz Plasser
  • Learning democracy: do democratic values adjust to new institutions?, Robert Rohrschneider
  • Interest in politics and the political culture approach - the case of the new democracies of Southern and Eastern Europe, Irene Mart n Cort s
  • Persistance of the democracies in central and Eastern Europe - consolidation, stability and people's power of resisting, J rg Jacobs, Olaf Muller and Gert Pickel
  • Satisfaction with democracy and its sources - the case of East Germany and Hungary, Jan Delhey and Verena Tobsch. Change of Values: transforming and polarization - attitudes towards equality and achievement and the search for losers and winners of the East German transformation 1990-1995, Heiner Meulemann
  • "Uber sieben Brucken mubt du gehen" - life worlds as places of socialization and biographical transforming work - a plea of the co-operation between quantitative and qualitative transformation research, Anna Schwarz
  • Values, small life worlds and communitarian orientations - ambivalent legacies and democratic potentials in post-communist political cultures, Gerd Meyer
  • Political culture in post-communist Europe - radical cultural change or adaptation on the basis of old cultural patterns, Ivan Bernik and Brina Malnar
  • Solidarity, justice and social change: Germany's ten years of unification, Bernd Wegener
  • On culture, thick and thin - toward a neo-cultural synthesis, William Mishler and Detlef Pollack.

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