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Author | : Gil Eyal |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780816640324 |
Professional football is one of the most popular television genres worldwide, attracting the support of millions of fans, and the sponsorship of powerful companies. In A Game of Two Halves, Cornel Sandvoss considers relationship with television, its links with trans-national capitalism, and the importance of football fandom in forming social and cultural identities around the globe, to present the phenomenon of football as a reflection postmodern culture and globalization.Through a series of case studies, based in ethnographic audience research, Sandvoss explores the motivations and pleasures of football fans, the intense bond formed between supporters and their clubs, the implications of football consumption on political discourse and citizenship, football as a factor of cultural globalization, and the pivotal role of football and television in a postmodern cultural order.
Author | : Gil Eyal |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780816640317 |
How is it that Czechoslovakia's separation into two countries in 1993 was accomplished so peacefully -- especially when compared with the experiences of its neighbors Russia and Yugoslavia? This book provides a sociological answer to this question -- and an empirical explanation for the breakup of Czechoslovakia -- by tracing the political processes begun in the Prague Spring of 1968. Gil Eyal's main argument is that Czechoslovakia's breakup was caused by a struggle between two fractions of what sociologists call the "new class," which consisted primarily of intellectuals and technocrats. Focusing on the process of polarization that created these two distinct political elites, Eyal shows how, in response to the events of the ill-fated Prague Spring, Czech and Slovak members of the "new class" embarked on divergent paths and developed radically different, even opposed, identities, worldviews, and interests. Unlike most accounts of postcommunist nationalist conflict, this book suggests that what bound together each of these fractions -- and what differentiated each from the other -- were not national identities and nationalist sentiments per se, but their distinctive visions of the social role of intellectuals. Book jacket.
Author | : Mattei Dogan |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780847690237 |
Most political regimes, whether authoritarian or democratic, are born in abrupt, brutal, and momentous crises. In this volume, a group of prominent scholars explores how these seminal events affect elites and shape regimes. Combining theoretical and case study chapters, the authors draw from a wide range of historical and contemporary examples to challenge mainstream developmental explanations of political change, which emphasize incremental changes and evolutions stretching over generations.
Author | : Jennifer A. Yoder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This study examines the problems of integrating East Germans into a political system that they did not create.
Author | : E. Hanley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Elite (Social sciences) |
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Author | : Ora John Reuter |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2017-04-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107171768 |
This book asks why dominant political parties emerge in some authoritarian regimes, but not in others, focusing on Russia's experience under Putin.
Author | : Gil Eyal |
Publisher | : Verso |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781859843123 |
Explores class formation and elite struggles in post-communist Central Europe.
Author | : John Higley |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780847698974 |
This distinctive book presents valuable new research on the political and economic elites that have emerged in Central and Eastern Europe since the demise of state socialism. Integrating theoretically informed analysis with fresh empirical data, the contributors significantly enhance our understanding of the evolution and interplay of elites in the post-communist period. Leading experts explore the elite circulations, differentiations, and competitions that now underpin-- but in some countries also still inhibit--democratic stability and economic growth. A provocative concluding chapter assesses the century-long confrontation between elite theory and Marxism and where they stand today, after state socialismOs collapse.
Author | : Bálint Magyar |
Publisher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 834 |
Release | : 2021-02-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9633863708 |
Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that characterize post-communist regimes, this is the most comprehensive work on the subject to date. Focusing on Central Europe, the post-Soviet countries and China, the study provides a systematic mapping of possible post-communist trajectories. At exploring the structural foundations of post-communist regime development, the work discusses the types of state, with an emphasis on informality and patronalism; the variety of actors in the political, economic, and communal spheres; the ways autocrats neutralize media, elections, etc. The analysis embraces the color revolutions of civil resistance (as in Georgia and in Ukraine) and the defensive mechanisms of democracy and autocracy; the evolution of corruption and the workings of “relational economy”; an analysis of China as “market-exploiting dictatorship”; the sociology of “clientage society”; and the instrumental use of ideology, with an emphasis on populism. Beyond a cataloguing of phenomena—actors, institutions, and dynamics of post-communist democracies, autocracies, and dictatorships—Magyar and Madlovics also conceptualize everything as building blocks to a larger, coherent structure: a new language for post-communist regimes. While being the most definitive book on the topic, the book is nevertheless written in an accessible style suitable for both beginners who wish to understand the logic of post-communism and scholars who are interested in original contributions to comparative regime theory. The book is equipped with QR codes that link to www.postcommunistregimes.com, which contains interactive, 3D supplementary material for teaching.
Author | : Anton Steen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2019-07-18 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0429512457 |
Published in 1997, this text presents a specific interest in analyzing the role of the elites as a key factor for democratic rule and policy changes. In order to put the elites in perspective the author has also conducted opinion surveys asking some of the same questions among representative samples of the populations in the three countries. Comparing these three rather similar states gives possibilities for singling out conditions for specific national developments in elite structure and policies.