The Political Economy of Protest and Patience in East-Central Europe: The 1990s and the early 2000s

Béla Greskovits, Dorothee Bohle

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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.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)105-112
Number of pages8
JournalTaiwan Journal of Democracy
Volume8
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012

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