Grzegorz Ekiert
Biographic Data
| ID | 1010174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Grzegorz Ekiert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Grzegorz |
| FAMILY NAME | Ekiert |
| SIGNATURE | EKIERT G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 368 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Powrót dyktatur
Erozja jakości instytucji demokratycznych oraz spadek poszanowania dla wolności i praw obywatelskich stały się w ostatnich latach przedmiotem sporów i dyskusji. Jednakże oprócz erozji demokracji ma miejsce równoległe zjawisko polityczne, rzadziej diagnozowane, ale równie istotne i potencjalnie bardziej niebezpieczne. Jest to proces, który można nazwać powrotem dyktatur. Dotyka on głównie współczesne reżimy hybrydowe i autorytarne, i oznacza przej…
The Return of Dictatorship
In recent years, significant academic attention has been devoted to the phenomenon of democratic backsliding, understood as a creeping assault on the rule of law and the fairness of elections, combined with efforts to capture the judicial system and state agencies to subjugate them to the executive power. At the same time, however, there has been a parallel political development affecting hybrid and authoritarian regimes that has been more conseq…
Ruling by Other Means
What do states gain by sending citizens into the streets? Ruling by Other Means investigates this question through the lens of State-Mobilized Movements (SMMs), an umbrella concept that includes a range of (often covertly organized) collective actions intended to advance state interests. The SMMs research agenda departs significantly from that of classic social movement and contentious politics theory, focused on threats to the state from seeming…
The weakness of postcommunist civil society reassessed
During the last two decades, scholars from a variety of disciplines have argued that civil society is structurally deficient in postcommunist countries. Yet why have the seemingly strong, active and mobilised civic movements of the transition period become so weak after democracy was established? And why have there been diverging political trajectories across the postcommunist space if civil society structures were universally weak? This article …
Civil Society and Three Dimensions of Inequality in Post-1989 Poland
This article presents three novel arguments regarding the role of civil society in the democratic transformation of Poland. First, under communism, associational life was neither extinct nor always totally controlled by the state. Over time, some organizations achieved a modicum of autonomy. The massive Solidarity movement left a legacy of civic engagement that influenced post-1989 developments. Second, inequality under state socialism needs to b…
Three Generations of Research on Post Communist Politics—A Sketch
This essay outlines theoretical visions or paradigms that have underpinned empirical and historical work on the great transformation in Central and Eastern Europe. Such paradigms shaped “sociological imaginations” and analytical lenses through which scholars generated important questions and developed their research interests and projects. The study of post-communism was influenced by three such paradigms: the first focused on the immediate commu…
The Legacies of 1989
The reconstitution of civil society in the postcommunist world is misunderstood. Commonly diagnosed as weak and ineffective, really existing civil societies vary widely across the region. They differ from each other along several dimensions: constitution of public space, organizational composition, patterns of behavior, and normative orientations. Such differences result from dissimilar legacies of communism, diverging patterns of transformation,…
Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe One Hundred Years On
In the twenty years since communism’s collapse, scholars of postcommmunist Central and Eastern Europe have increasingly converged on the insight that long-run continuities reaching back to the nineteenth century are crucial in shaping some of the most important contemporary macro- and micro-level political outcomes in the region. Today’s political cleavages, political discourses, patterns of partisan affiliation, institutional choice, and the qua…
Democracy in the Post-Communist World
Postcommunist Democracy
Response to Mark Kramer
Brief Report| June 01 2002 Response to Mark Kramer J. Kubik, J. Kubik a Rutgers University, Department of Political Science, New Brunswick, NJ, USA E-mail address: [email protected] * Corresponding author. Fax.: +1-732-932-1144. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar G. Ekiert G. Ekiert b Harvard University, Department of Government, Cambridge, MA, Harvard, USA Search for other works by this author on: This …
Rebellious Civil Society
Rebellious Civil Society
Poland is the only country in which popular protest and mass opposition, epitomized by the Solidarity movement, played a significant role in bringing down the communist regime. This book, the first comprehensive study of the politics of protest in postcommunist Central Europe, shows that organized protests not only continued under the new regime but also had a powerful impact on Poland's democratic consolidation.Following the collapse of communis…
Rebellious Civil Society
Poland is the only country in which popular protest and mass opposition, epitomized by the Solidarity movement, played a significant role in bringing down the communist regime. This book, the first comprehensive study of the politics of protest in postcommunist Central Europe, shows that organized protests not only continued under the new regime but also had a powerful impact on Poland's democratic consolidation. Following the collapse of communi…
Ten Years After
Collective Protest in Post-Communist Poland, 1989–1993
The authors' original research project provides new evidence that collective protest constituted a significant part of Polish political life during the first years of post-communist transformations. The paper demonstrates that the magnitude of protest increased from 1989 to 1993. Major features of protest politics are described: participants' social backgrounds, organizations sponsoring or leading protest, repertoire of contention, demands, targe…
Central Europe
Contentious Politics in New Democracies
The article reconstructs and explains the patterns of collective protest in four Central European countries: former East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia during the early phases of democratic consolidation (1989–93). The method of event analysis of protest behavior is employed. Content analysis of six major newspapers in each country provides empirical evidence. The examination of data reveals striking contrasts in the magnitude and forms o…
Rebellious Poles
The State against Society
The State against Society
The State against Society
Classical images of state-socialism developed in contemporary social sciences were founded on simple presuppositions. State-socialist regimes were considered to be politically stable due to their pervasive institutional and ideological control over the everyday lives of their citizens, impervious to reform and change, and representative of extreme political and economic dependency. Despite their contrasting historical experiences, they have been …
Award Recipients
The legacy
Democratization Processes in East Central Europe
This article explores various dimensions of the issue of transition to democracy in East Central Europe, focusing on the question of how past experiences shape the process of political change and on the limits of democratization in the region. The first part reviews scholarly debates on the relationship between the political crisis and processes of democratization in the region, arguing that new analytical categories are needed to account for dif…
Contentious Politics in New Democracies
The article reconstructs and explains the patterns of collective protest in four Central European countries: former East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia during the early phases of democratic consolidation (1989–93). The method of event analysis of protest behavior is employed. Content analysis of six major newspapers in each country provides empirical evidence. The examination of data reveals striking contrasts in the magnitude and forms o…
Democratization Processes in East Central Europe
This article explores various dimensions of the issue of transition to democracy in East Central Europe, focusing on the question of how past experiences shape the process of political change and on the limits of democratization in the region. The first part reviews scholarly debates on the relationship between the political crisis and processes of democratization in the region, arguing that new analytical categories are needed to account for dif…
The weakness of postcommunist civil society reassessed
During the last two decades, scholars from a variety of disciplines have argued that civil society is structurally deficient in postcommunist countries. Yet why have the seemingly strong, active and mobilised civic movements of the transition period become so weak after democracy was established? And why have there been diverging political trajectories across the postcommunist space if civil society structures were universally weak? This article …
The Legacies of 1989
The reconstitution of civil society in the postcommunist world is misunderstood. Commonly diagnosed as weak and ineffective, really existing civil societies vary widely across the region. They differ from each other along several dimensions: constitution of public space, organizational composition, patterns of behavior, and normative orientations. Such differences result from dissimilar legacies of communism, diverging patterns of transformation,…
Democracy in the Post-Communist World
Postcommunist Democracy
Civil Society and Three Dimensions of Inequality in Post-1989 Poland
This article presents three novel arguments regarding the role of civil society in the democratic transformation of Poland. First, under communism, associational life was neither extinct nor always totally controlled by the state. Over time, some organizations achieved a modicum of autonomy. The massive Solidarity movement left a legacy of civic engagement that influenced post-1989 developments. Second, inequality under state socialism needs to b…
Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe One Hundred Years On
In the twenty years since communism’s collapse, scholars of postcommmunist Central and Eastern Europe have increasingly converged on the insight that long-run continuities reaching back to the nineteenth century are crucial in shaping some of the most important contemporary macro- and micro-level political outcomes in the region. Today’s political cleavages, political discourses, patterns of partisan affiliation, institutional choice, and the qua…
Three Generations of Research on Post Communist Politics—A Sketch
This essay outlines theoretical visions or paradigms that have underpinned empirical and historical work on the great transformation in Central and Eastern Europe. Such paradigms shaped “sociological imaginations” and analytical lenses through which scholars generated important questions and developed their research interests and projects. The study of post-communism was influenced by three such paradigms: the first focused on the immediate commu…
Rebellious Poles
Collective Protest in Post-Communist Poland, 1989–1993
The authors' original research project provides new evidence that collective protest constituted a significant part of Polish political life during the first years of post-communist transformations. The paper demonstrates that the magnitude of protest increased from 1989 to 1993. Major features of protest politics are described: participants' social backgrounds, organizations sponsoring or leading protest, repertoire of contention, demands, targe…
Ten Years After
The State against Society
Rebellious Civil Society
Poland is the only country in which popular protest and mass opposition, epitomized by the Solidarity movement, played a significant role in bringing down the communist regime. This book, the first comprehensive study of the politics of protest in postcommunist Central Europe, shows that organized protests not only continued under the new regime but also had a powerful impact on Poland's democratic consolidation.Following the collapse of communis…
Democratization Processes in East Central Europe
This article explores various dimensions of the issue of transition to democracy in East Central Europe, focusing on the question of how past experiences shape the process of political change and on the limits of democratization in the region. The first part reviews scholarly debates on the relationship between the political crisis and processes of democratization in the region, arguing that new analytical categories are needed to account for dif…
Award Recipients
The legacy
The State against Society
The State against Society
Classical images of state-socialism developed in contemporary social sciences were founded on simple presuppositions. State-socialist regimes were considered to be politically stable due to their pervasive institutional and ideological control over the everyday lives of their citizens, impervious to reform and change, and representative of extreme political and economic dependency. Despite their contrasting historical experiences, they have been …
Rebellious Poles
The State against Society
Collective Protest in Post-Communist Poland, 1989–1993
The authors' original research project provides new evidence that collective protest constituted a significant part of Polish political life during the first years of post-communist transformations. The paper demonstrates that the magnitude of protest increased from 1989 to 1993. Major features of protest politics are described: participants' social backgrounds, organizations sponsoring or leading protest, repertoire of contention, demands, targe…
Central Europe
Contentious Politics in New Democracies
The article reconstructs and explains the patterns of collective protest in four Central European countries: former East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia during the early phases of democratic consolidation (1989–93). The method of event analysis of protest behavior is employed. Content analysis of six major newspapers in each country provides empirical evidence. The examination of data reveals striking contrasts in the magnitude and forms o…
Rebellious Civil Society
Poland is the only country in which popular protest and mass opposition, epitomized by the Solidarity movement, played a significant role in bringing down the communist regime. This book, the first comprehensive study of the politics of protest in postcommunist Central Europe, shows that organized protests not only continued under the new regime but also had a powerful impact on Poland's democratic consolidation. Following the collapse of communi…
Ten Years After
Rebellious Civil Society
Poland is the only country in which popular protest and mass opposition, epitomized by the Solidarity movement, played a significant role in bringing down the communist regime. This book, the first comprehensive study of the politics of protest in postcommunist Central Europe, shows that organized protests not only continued under the new regime but also had a powerful impact on Poland's democratic consolidation.Following the collapse of communis…
Rebellious Civil Society
Response to Mark Kramer
Brief Report| June 01 2002 Response to Mark Kramer J. Kubik, J. Kubik a Rutgers University, Department of Political Science, New Brunswick, NJ, USA E-mail address: [email protected] * Corresponding author. Fax.: +1-732-932-1144. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar G. Ekiert G. Ekiert b Harvard University, Department of Government, Cambridge, MA, Harvard, USA Search for other works by this author on: This …
Postcommunist Democracy
Democracy in the Post-Communist World
Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe One Hundred Years On
In the twenty years since communism’s collapse, scholars of postcommmunist Central and Eastern Europe have increasingly converged on the insight that long-run continuities reaching back to the nineteenth century are crucial in shaping some of the most important contemporary macro- and micro-level political outcomes in the region. Today’s political cleavages, political discourses, patterns of partisan affiliation, institutional choice, and the qua…
The Legacies of 1989
The reconstitution of civil society in the postcommunist world is misunderstood. Commonly diagnosed as weak and ineffective, really existing civil societies vary widely across the region. They differ from each other along several dimensions: constitution of public space, organizational composition, patterns of behavior, and normative orientations. Such differences result from dissimilar legacies of communism, diverging patterns of transformation,…
Three Generations of Research on Post Communist Politics—A Sketch
This essay outlines theoretical visions or paradigms that have underpinned empirical and historical work on the great transformation in Central and Eastern Europe. Such paradigms shaped “sociological imaginations” and analytical lenses through which scholars generated important questions and developed their research interests and projects. The study of post-communism was influenced by three such paradigms: the first focused on the immediate commu…
The weakness of postcommunist civil society reassessed
During the last two decades, scholars from a variety of disciplines have argued that civil society is structurally deficient in postcommunist countries. Yet why have the seemingly strong, active and mobilised civic movements of the transition period become so weak after democracy was established? And why have there been diverging political trajectories across the postcommunist space if civil society structures were universally weak? This article …
Civil Society and Three Dimensions of Inequality in Post-1989 Poland
This article presents three novel arguments regarding the role of civil society in the democratic transformation of Poland. First, under communism, associational life was neither extinct nor always totally controlled by the state. Over time, some organizations achieved a modicum of autonomy. The massive Solidarity movement left a legacy of civic engagement that influenced post-1989 developments. Second, inequality under state socialism needs to b…
Ruling by Other Means
What do states gain by sending citizens into the streets? Ruling by Other Means investigates this question through the lens of State-Mobilized Movements (SMMs), an umbrella concept that includes a range of (often covertly organized) collective actions intended to advance state interests. The SMMs research agenda departs significantly from that of classic social movement and contentious politics theory, focused on threats to the state from seeming…
Powrót dyktatur
Erozja jakości instytucji demokratycznych oraz spadek poszanowania dla wolności i praw obywatelskich stały się w ostatnich latach przedmiotem sporów i dyskusji. Jednakże oprócz erozji demokracji ma miejsce równoległe zjawisko polityczne, rzadziej diagnozowane, ale równie istotne i potencjalnie bardziej niebezpieczne. Jest to proces, który można nazwać powrotem dyktatur. Dotyka on głównie współczesne reżimy hybrydowe i autorytarne, i oznacza przej…
The Return of Dictatorship
In recent years, significant academic attention has been devoted to the phenomenon of democratic backsliding, understood as a creeping assault on the rule of law and the fairness of elections, combined with efforts to capture the judicial system and state agencies to subjugate them to the executive power. At the same time, however, there has been a parallel political development affecting hybrid and authoritarian regimes that has been more conseq…
Political science (21 works) · Law (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Political economy (17 works) · Politics (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Economics (13 works) · Democracy (11 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (11 works) · Communism (9 works)