Political culture in post-communist Europe
Subtitle: attitudes in new democracies
By: edited by Detlef Pollack ... [et al.].
Contributors: Pollack, Detlef, 1955-
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Aldershot
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Political culture -- Europe, Eastern.; Democratization -- Europe, Eastern.; New democracies -- Europe, Eastern.; Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern.; Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 1989-
Description: This text aims to sketch some of the challenging issues of the attitudinal dimension of system changes. It provides facts and figures on the progress of democratization in Central and Eastern Europe.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Culture as destiny / Lucian W. Pye; title: Political culture and democratization : the Russian case in comparative perspective / Archie Brown; title: Political culture in East-Central and Eastern Europe : empirical findings 1990-2001 / Peter A. Ulram and Fritz Plasser; title: Learning democracy : do democratic values adjust to new institutions? / Robert Rohrschneider; title: Interest in politics and the political culture approach : the case of the new democracies of Southern and Eastern Europe / Irene Martin; title: Persistence of the democracies in Central and Eastern Europe : consolidation, stability, and people's power of resisting / Jörg Jacobs, Olaf Müller and Gert Pickel; title: Satisfaction with democracy and its sources : the cases of East Germany and Hungary / Jan Delhey and Verena Tobsch; title: Transformation and polarization : attitudes towards equality and achievement and the search for losers and winners of the East German transformation 1990-1995 / Heiner Meulemann; title: Über sieben Brücken musst Du gehen ... ' Life worlds as places of socialization and biographical transformation work : a plea for the cooperation between quantitative and qualitative transformation research / Anna Schwarz; title: Values, small life worlds and communitarian orientations : ambivalent legacies and democratic potentials in post-communist political cultures / Gerd Meyer; title: Political culture in post-communist Europe : radical cultural change or adaptation on the basis of old cultural patterns? / Ivan Bernik and Brina Malnar; title: Solidarity, justice, and social change : Germany's ten years of unification / Bernd Wegener; title: On culture, thick and thin : toward a neo-cultural synthesis / William Mishler and Detlef Pollack.