TY - JOUR
T1 - The Political Economy of Protest and Patience in East-Central Europe: The 1990s and the early 2000s
AU - Greskovits, Béla
AU - Bohle, Dorothee
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - First, this essay argues that belying the optimistic and pessimistic generalizations characterizing the early debates on the transformation, both successes and failures of building capitalist democracy abound in post-socialist Eastern Europe. Second, within the group of successfully transforming countries, there has been a difference between the specific resources-associated with popular demands for social welfare and regained national identity-on which transformative elites relied to preempt or tame disruptive contention and elicit support for capitalist democracy. Third, it is argued that European integration and economic transnationalization have had varied effect on the dynamics of civil-society development and democratic consolidation across the region and over time.
AB - First, this essay argues that belying the optimistic and pessimistic generalizations characterizing the early debates on the transformation, both successes and failures of building capitalist democracy abound in post-socialist Eastern Europe. Second, within the group of successfully transforming countries, there has been a difference between the specific resources-associated with popular demands for social welfare and regained national identity-on which transformative elites relied to preempt or tame disruptive contention and elicit support for capitalist democracy. Third, it is argued that European integration and economic transnationalization have had varied effect on the dynamics of civil-society development and democratic consolidation across the region and over time.
UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/2706842
U2 - 10.29654%2fTJD.201212.0010
DO - 10.29654%2fTJD.201212.0010
M3 - Article
SN - 1815-7238
VL - 8
SP - 105
EP - 112
JO - Taiwan Journal of Democracy
JF - Taiwan Journal of Democracy
IS - 2
ER -