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Democratic Values in the Post-Communist Region: The Incidence of Traditionalists, Skeptics, Democrats, and Radicals

In: Changing Values and Identities in the Post-Communist World

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  • Martina Klicperova-Baker

    (Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences)

  • Jaroslav Kostal

    (Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences)

Abstract

A generation after the democratic revolutions of 1989, most post-communist countries remain democratic. However, citizens differ by their identification with democratic values and by the prevalence of five main “(non)democratic mentalities” which we derived from the European Values Study (EVS). Our focus was on three post-communist regions: (a) the post-soviet core countries (Russia, Moldova, Ukraine), (b) ex-soviet Baltics (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), and (c) Central European “Visegrad” countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia). Results indicate that democrats (i.e., secular democrats and religious democrats) are represented in every country; their incidence is higher among elites and among the young; yet democrats in all post-communist countries constitute a minority. Intolerant traditionalists are most typical for the post-soviet core countries, while passive skeptics constitute majority in the post-communist Central Europe and plurality in the Baltics. Passive skepticism can be interpreted in terms of an enduring “post-communist syndrome.”

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  • Martina Klicperova-Baker & Jaroslav Kostal, 2018. "Democratic Values in the Post-Communist Region: The Incidence of Traditionalists, Skeptics, Democrats, and Radicals," Societies and Political Orders in Transition, in: Nadezhda Lebedeva & Radosveta Dimitrova & John Berry (ed.), Changing Values and Identities in the Post-Communist World, pages 27-51, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:socchp:978-3-319-72616-8_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-72616-8_2
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