Democracy and its alternatives : understanding post-communist societies /
While most recent books on democratization focus on Latin America and, to some extent, Asia, the present volume offers a unique look at the process currently under way in nine eastern European countries: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, Belarus, and Ukraine...
| Основен автор: | Rose, Richard, 1933- |
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| Други автори: | Mishler, William, 1947-, Haerpfer, Christian W., 1952- |
| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Baltimore, Md. :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
©1998.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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Democracy and its alternatives. |
Съдържание:
- Competing Claims for Popular Support
- Competition between Regimes: A Question of Supply and Demand
- Elites propose, masses dispose
- Democracy gaining ground?
- Changing regimes in post-Communist Europe
- Democracy and Undemocratic Alternatives
- The idealist approach in practice
- Democracy in competition
- Alternatives to democracy
- Uncertain Dynamics of Democratization
- Alternative paths to stable democracy
- Paths in and out of Communism
- Political legacies, soft and hard
- Comparing Post-Communist Societies
- Communism as a homogenizing force
- A measured choice for comparison
- Surveying public opinion
- Mass Response to Transformation
- Popular Support for Competing Regimes
- Asking about ideals
- Ideals in practice
- Popular support for competing regimes
- Support for undemocratic alternatives
- Variation not uniformity
- Impact of Social Structure, Old and New
- The Communist legacy: modern or anti-modern?
- New social groups and regime support
- Traditional groups and regime support
- Little influence of social structure
- Political Legacies and Performance
- A legacy of democratic reaction
- The influence of new institutions
- Political influences past and present
- Reacting to Economic Transformation
- The multiple economies of everyday life
- The household economy
- Evaluating the macro-economy
- Both economics and politics influence support
- How Much do Context, Countries and Sequence Matter?
- Generic contexts, political and economic.