Political Culture in Post-Communist Europe
Subtitle: Attitudes in New Democracies
Contributors: Detlef Pollack (Editor); Jorg Jacobs (Editor); Olaf Muller (Editor); Gert Pickel (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780754619697
Subjects: Political science & theory; Political structures: democracy; Politics and government; Europe, Eastern; Anthropology - Cultural; Post-communism; Political Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Political culture; Politics/International Relations; Central Europe; Eastern Europe; Europe; New democracies; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Democratization
First sentence: The current challenge of understanding the transitions from planned economies and one-party rule to free markets and plural democracy is very reminiscent of the challenge of 50 years ago, that of understanding nation-building in the ex-colonial territories of Asia and Africa.