TY - UNPB
T1 - Problems of Legitimacy, Public Sphere and Political Integration
T2 - Theorizing East Central European Communism
AU - Bozóki, András
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This paper focuses on degrees of political integration by discussing interactionbetween the society and (democratic or authoritarian) political power. This isthe relationship, which determines legitimacy or non-legitimacy in a givenregime. The dichotomy of society and political power reflects upon the classic,simplified discourse of we and them in East-Central Europe in the 1970sand 1980s, which is usually applicable only in non-democratic regimes. Thiswas the dominant discourse in Poland, for instance, during the self-limitingrevolution of Solidarity, where the opposition followed the Gandhian strategyof non-violent non-cooperation against the Communist regime.
AB - This paper focuses on degrees of political integration by discussing interactionbetween the society and (democratic or authoritarian) political power. This isthe relationship, which determines legitimacy or non-legitimacy in a givenregime. The dichotomy of society and political power reflects upon the classic,simplified discourse of we and them in East-Central Europe in the 1970sand 1980s, which is usually applicable only in non-democratic regimes. Thiswas the dominant discourse in Poland, for instance, during the self-limitingrevolution of Solidarity, where the opposition followed the Gandhian strategyof non-violent non-cooperation against the Communist regime.
UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/1499026
M3 - Working paper
T3 - Eurosphere working paper series
SP - 1
EP - 21
BT - Problems of Legitimacy, Public Sphere and Political Integration
PB - Eurosphere
CY - [s.l.]
ER -