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Reforming sacred institutions, part II: the Soviet Party-State and the Roman Catholic Church compared

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The Soviet Party-State and the Roman Catholic Church are conceptualized as hierocratic institutions that faced analogous challenges of adaptation to a changing world from the 1950s onward. Building upon an earlier publication in Post-Soviet Affairs, this article identifies four strategies of “selective inclusion” chosen by these institutions as their leaders sought to reduce the pre-1950s levels of sectarianism: hierocratic reformism; hierocratic managerialism; messianic revivalism; and anti-hierocratic radicalism. Parallels in the adoption of these strategies, and common features of a legitimacy crisis they both came to face, reveal the causal strength of common features, while possible differences in their institutional durability suggest the likely causal impact of differences between them.

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  • George W. Breslauer, 2019. "Reforming sacred institutions, part II: the Soviet Party-State and the Roman Catholic Church compared," Post-Soviet Affairs, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(4), pages 338-357, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpsaxx:v:35:y:2019:i:4:p:338-357
    DOI: 10.1080/1060586X.2019.1620977
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    1. Jäkel Tim & Borshchevskiy George Alexander, 2021. "Leadership Discourses on Bureaucracy: Continuity over a Century," NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy, Sciendo, vol. 14(2), pages 111-133, December.

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