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<p><P>What is the relationship between democracy and political culture in countries undergoing major systemic change? Have subjective political orientations of citizens been important in shaping the development of democracy in central and eastern Europe after the fall of communism? <P>These core questions are tackled by an impressive range of twenty political scientists, sixteen of which are based in the central and eastern European countries covered in this essential new book. Their analyses draw on a unique set of data collected and processed by the contributors to this volume within the framework of the World Values Survey project. This data enables these authors to establish similarities and differences in support of democracy between a large number of countries with different cultural and structural conditions as well as historical legacies. <P>The macro-level findings of the book tend to support the proposition that support of democracy declines the further east one goes. In contrast, micro-level relationships have been found to be astonishingly similar. For example, support of democracy is always positively related to higher levels of education &#151; no matter where an indi

Author

Hans-Dieter Klingemann; Dieter Fuchs; Jan Zielonka

Publisher

London ; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781134170395

Subjects

Political Science, History, Sociology