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A Quarter Century of Post-Communism AssessedChapter 3: Trajectories of Political Development in the Post-Soviet States

A Quarter Century of Post-Communism Assessed: Chapter 3: Trajectories of Political Development in... [Some 25 years after the collapse of the USSR, most successor states are ruled by non-democratic regimes. This chapter explores why this is so. After looking at some arguments about culture, the chapter turns to an argument about the circumstances of these countries’ emergence from the USSR, and especially the role of mass-based civil society forces in that process. Most of the post-Soviet countries experienced an overwhelmingly elite-based transition in which the populace played only a subsidiary part. The result was the creation of political systems that were semi-closed, in the sense of providing little scope for real popular participation. Politics was overwhelmingly an elite phenomenon, and those elites acted to maintain the semi-closed nature of their polities.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Quarter Century of Post-Communism AssessedChapter 3: Trajectories of Political Development in the Post-Soviet States

Editors: Fish, M. Steven; Gill, Graeme; Petrovic, Milenko

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
ISBN
978-3-319-43436-0
Pages
75 –98
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-43437-7_4
Publisher site
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Abstract

[Some 25 years after the collapse of the USSR, most successor states are ruled by non-democratic regimes. This chapter explores why this is so. After looking at some arguments about culture, the chapter turns to an argument about the circumstances of these countries’ emergence from the USSR, and especially the role of mass-based civil society forces in that process. Most of the post-Soviet countries experienced an overwhelmingly elite-based transition in which the populace played only a subsidiary part. The result was the creation of political systems that were semi-closed, in the sense of providing little scope for real popular participation. Politics was overwhelmingly an elite phenomenon, and those elites acted to maintain the semi-closed nature of their polities.]

Published: Nov 3, 2016

Keywords: European Union; Communist Party; Regime Change; Authoritarian Regime; Former Soviet Union

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