Catholicism and Politics in Communist Societies

The BalTic Sea Region Cultures , Politics , Societies

The BalTic Sea Region Cultures , Politics , Societies

The intelligentsia in the constitution of civil societies and post-communist regimes in Hungary and Poland

The most prominent actor in the 1989 transformation of Eastern Europe has been the intelligentsia, a class whose basis for power is its control over a special form of teleological knowledge, and a culturally constituted group whose claim to authority is its historic role as leaders of East European nations. 2 In the wake of revolution they have in most places replaced the communist party and wo...

Political Engineering and Party Politics in Conflict-Prone Societies

Comparative scholarship suggests that democracy in ethnically-diverse societies is likely to be fostered by the development of broad-based, aggregative, and multi-ethnic political parties, rather than fragmented, personalised, or ethnically-based party systems. However, surprisingly little scholarly attention has been given to how party fragmentation can be addressed or how broad-based parties ...

Stripped of illusions? Exploring system justification processes in capitalist and post-Communist societies.

Sociologists and political scientists have often observed that citizens of Central and Eastern Europe express high levels of disillusionment with their social, economic and political systems, in comparison with citizens of Western capitalist societies. In this review, we analyze system legitimation and delegitimation in post-Communist societies from a social psychological perspective. We draw o...