Does popular ideology affect public policies enacted in a country? The baseline argument links popular ideology input to policy output. Either a population more often elects a party with its favored ideology into office, which then implements policies in line with popular ideology. Alternatively, all parties pursue policies more in line with popular ideology. Under the first view, popular ideol...

The article focuses on the reflection in Kazakh publications of problems national identification and identity during period Russian empire Soviet authority. author seeks to comprehend significance involved context world experience.   During periods covered article, people experienced most terrible tragedies. So, XVIII-XIX centuries, pursued a colonial policy land. clarifies that government...

Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski in Defense of the Rights Nation The impulse to refer personal exemplar Primate Wyszy?ski and his teachings about nation family are tendencies moral relativism present social life, resulting from belief that only effectiveness practical usefulness determine what is true good. Seeing this threat a return „the right doctrine”, which truth no longer ideology Marxism-Lenini...

What explains the divergent political paths that the post-communist countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have followed since the fall of the Berlin Wall? While some appear today to be consolidated democracies, others have all the features of consolidated autocracy. This study reviews the patterns of change and examines correlates of progress towards democracy. Variation acros...

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...

Unlike other research papers, we will start our exploration into the Romanian higher education system during communist times, by going through some statistical data. This will be followed shortly by a short review of some other papers approaching the subject of higher education during communist times and, at the end, will be summed up to provide a theoretical framework for analysis. It must be ...

The era of the formation Bolshevik authoritarian regime in country (1917-1938) is most studied segment history journalism national regions North Caucasus. In historiography this stage development regional media system, three periods can be distinguished, each which has its own characteristics. first (1920-1950) characterized by review articles published specialized journalistic publications exp...

The war in Ukraine that began February 2014 and escalated 2022 to the extent unseen Europe since World War II, cannot be adequately comprehended without taking into consideration its religious dimension. This article explores evolution of “Russian world” ideology, which leaders speakers Russian Orthodox Church render quasi-theological terms. It explains why patriarch Kirill decided back it turn...

The article focuses on how the Communist Party in Bulgaria used slogans physical environment as party propaganda. An account of historical context country after Second World War is provided that lead to establishment a regime and drastic changes it brought all spheres life. books two Bulgarian philosophers written before democratic 1989 are commented – an inside criticism inherent flaws ideolog...

Political scientists have documented significant variation in political and economic outcomes of the 1989–91 revolutions. Countries bordering on western Europe have become relatively democratic and economically successful, with both democracy and wealth dropping off as one moves east and south. Explanations for this variation and the replication of an older pattern on the Eurasian landmass have...