Search Results - "POSTCOMMUNISM"

Professional indulgences: the kleptocracy problem and the transformation of global politics by Heathershaw, John, Prelec, Tena, Mayne, Thomas

“…This article discusses the phenomenon of transnational kleptocracy and explains how kleptocrats and oligarchs have been welcomed in rule-of-law settings. The…”
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The Ideological Shadow of Authoritarianism by Dinas, Elias, Northmore-Ball, Ksenia

“…How do the labels left and right take on meaning in new democracies? Existing explanations point to the universality of the left–right scheme or, reversely,…”
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Performance and Postsocialism in Postmillennial China by Ferrari, Rossella

“…This Element examines performance in postmillennial China through the lens of postsocialism. It explores how the ideological ambivalence and cultural paradoxes…”
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Evaluating the transition: once more with feeling by Roberts, Andrew

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Twenty-Five Sides of a Post-Communist Mafia State by Magyar, Balint, Vasarhelyi, Julia

“…The twenty-five essays accompany, illustrate and underpin the conceptual framework elaborated in Post-Communist Mafia State (CEU Press, 2016), published in…”
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Post-Communist Mafia State: The Case of Hungary by Magyar, Bálint

“…Having won a two-third majority in Parliament at the 2010 elections, the Hungarian political party Fidesz removed many of the institutional obstacles of…”
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Cartografii Ale Memoriei În Proza Ruxandrei Cesereanu Și A Tatianei Țîbuleac by Gabriela-Emilia Merce

“…The starting point of my study is represented by two works, Grădina de sticlă(Tatiana Țîbuleac) and Un singur cer deasupra tuturor (Ruxandra Cesereanu). These…”
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Caught between 1945 and 1989: collective memory and the rise of illiberal democracy in postcommunist Europe by Verovšek, Peter J.

“…Thirty years after 1989 Europe is once again divided, despite 15 years of integration within the European Union. In contrast to the West's liberal conception…”
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Revisiting Electoral Volatility in Post-Communist Countries: New Data, New Results and New Approaches by Powell, Eleanor Neff, Tucker, Joshua A.

“…This article provides a detailed set of coding rules for disaggregating electoral volatility into two components: volatility caused by new party entry and old…”
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Multiple Transformations: Conceptualising the Post-communist Urban Transition by Sýkora, Ludêk, Bouzarovski, Stefan

“…This paper develops a conceptual framework for interpreting the process of urban change in post-communist cities. The departure from the legacies of the…”
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Repatriating Polanyi: Market Society in the Visegrád States by Hann, Chris

“…Karl Polanyi's "substantivist" critique of market society has found new popularity in the era of neoliberal globalization. The author reclaims this polymath…”
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The weakness of postcommunist civil society reassessed by FOA, ROBERTO STEFAN, EKIERT, GRZEGORZ

“…During the last two decades, scholars from a variety of disciplines have argued that civil society is structurally deficient in postcommunist countries. Yet…”
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Basic Personal Values and the Meaning of Left-Right Political Orientations in 20 Countries by Piurko, Yuval, Schwartz, Shalom H., Davidov, Eldad

“…This study used basic personal values to elucidate the motivational meanings of "left" and "right" political orientations in 20 representative national samples…”
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Memory wars in postimperial settings: The challenges of transnationalism and the risks of new totalizing mnemonics by Bekus, Nelly

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Liberals, Conservatives, and Mavericks: On Christian Churches of Eastern Europe since 1980. A Festschrift for Sabrina P. Ramet

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Poland's Memory Wars: Essays on Illiberalism by Jo Harper, Jo Harper

“…This volume of essays and interviews by Polish, British, and American academics and journalists provides an overview of current Polish politics for both…”
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Austerities and Aspirations: A Comparative History of Growth, Consumption, and Quality of Life in East Central Europe since 1945 by Tomka, Béla

“…This monograph provides an analysis of the economic performance and living standard in Czechoslovakia and its successor states, Hungary, and Poland since 1945…”
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Liberals, Conservatives, and Mavericks: On Christian Churches of Eastern Europe since 1980 by Ramet, Sabrina P.

“…No Church is monolithic-this is the preliminary premise of this volume on the public place of religion in a representative number of post-communist countries…”
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Syndrome of populism and the evolution of post-Soviet regimes by Duvanova, Dinissa

“…The juxtaposition of “us” the people vs. “them” the elites and the demonization of outsiders have been the recurring themes across the post-Soviet space, from…”
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Memory Crash: Politics of History in and around Ukraine, 1980s–2010s by Kasianov, Georgiy

“…This account of historical politics in Ukraine, framed in a broader European context, shows how social, political, and cultural groups have used and misused…”
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