Communism's shadow historical legacies and contemporary political attitudes
Communism's shadow -- Living through communism -- Methods and data -- Democracy -- Markets -- Social welfare -- Gender equality -- Temporal resilience and change -- Legacies and communism
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Princeton, Oxford
Princeton University Press
2017
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| Schriftenreihe: | Princeton studies in political behavior
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Communism's shadow -- Living through communism -- Methods and data -- Democracy -- Markets -- Social welfare -- Gender equality -- Temporal resilience and change -- Legacies and communism It has long been assumed that the historical legacy of Soviet Communism would have an important effect on post-communist states. However, prior research has focused primarily on the institutional legacy of communism. "Communism's Shadow" instead turns the focus to the individuals who inhabit post-communist countries, presenting a rigorous assessment of the legacy of communism on political attitudes. Post-communist citizens hold political, economic, and social opinions that consistently differ from individuals in other countries. Grigore Pop-Eleches and Joshua Tucker introduce two distinct frameworks to explain these differences, the first of which focuses on the effects of living in a post-communist country, and the second on living through communism. Drawing on large-scale research encompassing post-communist states and other countries around the globe, the authors demonstrate that living through communism has a clear, consistent influence on why citizens in post-communist countries are, on average, less supportive of democracy and markets and more supportive of state-provided social welfare. The longer citizens have lived through communism, especially as adults, the greater their support for beliefs associated with communist ideology--the one exception being opinions regarding gender equality. |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 313-331. - Register |
| Beschreibung: | xiii, 336 Seiten Diagramme |
| ISBN: | 9780691175591 978-0-691-17559-1 9780691175584 978-0-691-17558-4 |