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| Author | : Marc Morjé Howard |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2003-03-27 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521011525 |
Seeks to explain the weakness of civil society in the countries of post-Communist Europe.
| Author | : Kerstin Jacobsson |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2021-10-15 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1800732066 |
In much social scientific literature, Polish civil society has been portrayed as weak and passive. This volume offers a much-needed corrective, challenging this characterization on both theoretical and empirical grounds and suggesting new ways of conceptualizing civil society to better account for events on the ground as well as global trends such as neoliberalism, migration, and the renewal of nationalist ideologies. Focusing on forms of collective action that researchers have tended to overlook, the studies gathered here show how public discourse legitimizes certain claims and political actions as “true” civil society, while others are too often dismissed. Taken together, they critique a model of civil society that is ‘made from above’.
| Author | : Richard Rose |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 2009-01-21 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1134016697 |
The fall of the Berlin Wall launched the transformation of government, economy and society across half of Europe and the former Soviet Union. This text deals with the process of change in former Communist bloc countries, ten of which have become new European Union (EU) democracies while Russia and her neighbours remain burdened by their Soviet legacy. Drawing on more than a hundred public opinion surveys from the New Europe Barometer, the text compares how ordinary people have coped with the stresses and opportunities of transforming Communist societies into post-Communist societies and the resulting differences between peoples in the new EU member states and Russia. Subjects covered by Understanding Post-Communist Transformation include: Stresses and opportunities of economic transformation Social capital and the development of civil society Elections and the complexities of party politics The challenges for the EU of raising standards of democratic governance Differences between Russia’s and the West’s interpretation of political life Written by one of the world's most renowned authorities on this subject, this text is ideal for courses on transition, post-communism, democratization and Russian and Eastern European history and politics.
| Author | : Christopher Swader |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 041589221X |
This book reveals the ambivalent repercussions of capitalist culture on interpersonal relationships in the post-communist world. Most observers tend to blame modern corruption, narcissism, and egoism in these new market societies on their communist pasts. This comparative analysis shows how the capitalist present is also squarely responsible.
| Author | : M. Hooghe |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2003-05-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1403979545 |
Social capital - networks of civic engagements, norms of reciprocity, and attitudes of trust - is widely seen as playing a key role for the health of democracy. While many authors have examined the consequences of social capital, there is a pressing need to explore its sources. This collection brings together leading American and European scholars in the first comparative analysis of how social trust and other civic attitudes are generated. The contributors to this volume examine the generation of social capital from two directions: society-based approaches that emphasize voluntary associations, and institutional approaches that emphasize policy.
| Author | : Christian Lahusen |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 299 |
| Release | : 2018-04-19 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3319733354 |
This open access volume provides evidence-based knowledge on European solidarity and citizen responses in times of crisis. Does the crisis of European integration translate into a crisis of European solidarity, and if yes, what are the manifestations at the level of individual citizens? How strongly is solidarity rooted at the individual level, both in terms of attitudes and practices? And which driving factors and mechanisms contribute to the reproduction and/or corrosion of solidarity in times of crisis? Using findings from the EU Horizon 2020 funded research project “European paths to transnational solidarity at times of crisis: Conditions, forms, role-models and policy responses” (TransSOL), the books addresses these questions and provides cross-national comparisons of eight European countries – Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, and the UK. It will appeal to students, scholars and policymakers interested in the Eurocrisis, politics and sociology.
| Author | : Lars Trägårdh |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2007-01-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1782382003 |
In the current neo-liberal political and economic climate, it is often suggested that a large and strong state stands in opposition to an autonomous and vibrant civil society. However, the simultaneous presence in Sweden of both a famously large public sector and an unusually vital civil society poses an interesting and important theoretical challenge to these views with serious political and policy implications. Studies show that in a comparative context Sweden scores very highly when it comes to the strength and vitality of its civil society as well as social capital, as measured in terms of trust, lack of corruption, and membership of voluntary associations. The “Swedish Model,” therefore, offers important insights into the dynamics of state and civil society relations, which go against current trends of undermining the importance of the welfare state, and presents autonomous civic participation as the only way forward.
| Author | : Alfred B. Evans |
| Publisher | : M.E. Sharpe |
| Total Pages | : 362 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780765615213 |
Undertakes an analysis of the development of civil society in post-Soviet Russia. This book analyzes the Russian context and considers the roles of the media, business, organized crime, the church, the village, and the Putin administration in shaping the terrain of public life.
| Author | : Katarzyna Lasinska |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 2013-01-11 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3658005238 |
Katarzyna Lasinska deals with the consequences of democratic transitions in Middle and Eastern Europe. By selecting specific sets of countries according to the main explanations such as Catholic tradition, transformation process and communist legacies, the author identifies key factors explaining particular findings in Poland. Thank to systematically used comparative research strategy the pitfalls of idiosyncratic argumentation are successfully avoided. Through inclusion of religious tradition as an explanative factor the results go beyond the commonly used East-West comparisons. The author presents a comprehensive picture of complex conditions and different processes for social capital building across Eastern European societies.
| Author | : Terry Cox |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Civil society |
| ISBN | : 9781138953666 |
This book presents a selection of recent research on the general theme of civil society and social capital and in particular, on the relation between social capital and democratisation and the question of the political strength or weakness of civil society in post-communist countries. This book is a compilation of articles published in Europe-Asia Studies.
