What are the near- and long-term prospects for the establishment of democratic polities in the Soviet successor states? In seeking to answer this question the best indicator would be the healthy development of civil societies of the region, with a growing capacity to assume social responsibility and exact government accountability. The chapters in this volume examine the evolving political cultures of the post-Soviet states.
James L. Gibson focuses on the main political threats to democracy in Russia and Ukraine as evinced in his study of the mass public—a category that, we should remember, attracted the interest of many scholars in Weimar Germany.
( Mark Rhodes , “ Religious Believers in Russia , ” RFE / RL Research Report , 1 , no . 14 [ 3 April 1992 ) , 60-4 ) . These results do not demonstrate that Russian Orthodoxy is the cause of illiberal political values ; the highly ...
See Vladimir Tismaneanu and Michael Turner , " Understanding Post - Leninism : Between Residual Leninism and Uncertain Pluralism , " in Political Culture and Civil Society in Russia and the New States of Eurasia , ed .
James Gibson's research yields a similar conclusion after comparing the 1990 and 1992 results of his survey of Russia and Ukraine: not only did he not find a significant decline in support for democratic values from 1990 to 1992, ...
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Democratization in Russia: The Development of Legislative Institutions. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1996. Hess, Stephen. Organizing the Presidency, second edition. ... Russia's 1996 Presidential Elections: The End of Polarized Politics.
Judith S. Kullberg, “The Ideological Roots of Elite Political Conflict in PostSoviet Russia,” Europe-Asia Studies 46, no. ... Political Culture and Civil Society in Russia and the New States of Eurasia, Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., ...
Gibson , James L. , “ The Resilieince of Mass Support for Democratic Institutions in the Nascent Russian and Ukranian Democracies " , in Political Culture and Civil Society in Russia and the New States of Eurasia , ( Vladimir Tismaneanu ...
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Political and Cultural Contexts Marlies Glasius, David Lewis, Hakan Seckinelgin. well as participating in a variety of crimes, ... Political Culture and Civil Society in Russia and the New States of Eurasia, New York: M.E.Sharpe.