Dieter Segert
Biographic Data
| ID | 773033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dieter Segert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dieter |
| FAMILY NAME | Segert |
| SIGNATURE | SEGERT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8167-1559 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What war means – a lesson from Ukraine
Every day, people die. The war in Eastern Ukraine, which began in 2014, has claimed over 14,000 lives, according to the UN. Since 2022, a major war has raged across the entire country. The exact fi
Die fragile Demokratisierung in Ostmitteleuropa in der Zwischenkriegszeit [The fragile democratization in East Central Europe in the interwar period]
At the end of the First World War a number of new national states emerged from the three disintegrating empires of tsarist Russia, Germany and Austria-Hungary. At the outset nearly all of these states in East Central Europe were liberal democracies based on the 1875 constitutional laws of the French Third Republic (1870–1940). Shortly afterwards, however, these liberal democracies were transformed into various forms of political dictatorship, the…
Introduction to Special Issue on The Politics of East European Area Studies
The Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe (formerly titled Debatte) is an organ devoted to the study of Central and Eastern Europe; it is in disciplinary terms an “Area Studies” journa
Is There Really Something Like “Eastern Europe”? And If So, Why Do We Need Area Studies of It
Eastern Europe is more than only a pure geographical term; it is an invention of the eighteenth century. Later, it became a catchword for the Soviet bloc. The puzzle consists in the fact that it did not disappear after the end-of-state socialism. The paper presents good causes as to why there should be further pursuing of an academic discipline of area studies on Eastern Europe. The thesis will be demonstrated by resuming the discussion about the…
Transformationen in Osteuropa im 20. Jahrhundert
Osteuropa hat im 20. Jahrhundert zwei große Transformationen erlebt. Warum ist der Staatssozialismus dort entstanden? Was waren seine grundlegenden Probleme? Welches Erbe hat er hinterlassen? Was können wir im Westen aus dem radikalen Wandel des Ostens über die Gefährdungen unserer eigenen Ordnung lernen? Der Wiener Politikwissenschaftler Dieter Segert führt mit diesem Buch in die „Area Studies“ zu Osteuropa ein und diskutiert den Zusammenhang de…
Systemwechsel 2
Understanding the “footprint of state socialism” in east central European post-socialism
The paper outlines the debate on European state socialism as a social and political order. There are different attempts to obtain a better understanding of the core principles of this type of society and a continuing public debate on it. Following the end of the decade of the transition from “socialism to capitalism” we can observe a renewal in the debates on the “Ancient regime” and its heritage. There are different reasons for this phenomenon; …
Thorsten Gromes, Ohne Staat und Nation ist keine Demokratie zu machen. Bosnien und Herzegowina, Kosovo und Makedonien nach den Bürgerkriegen
Article Thorsten Gromes, Ohne Staat und Nation ist keine Demokratie zu machen. Bosnien und Herzegowina, Kosovo und Makedonien nach den Bürgerkriegen was published on April 1, 2012 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 60, issue 4)
Introduction to the Issue
The Crisis of Representative Democracy in the Post-Yugoslav Region. Discrepancies of Elite Policies and Citizens’ Expectations
If free and fair elections repeatedly fail to respond to popular dissatisfaction, then a crisis of representative democracy will emerge. In Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia, such a crisis is already undermining the legitimacy of their young democratic systems. Despite positive evaluations from democracy indices and EU reports, citizens are increasingly discontent and give little support to the existing political options. Understanding the …
Lessons from “Post-Yugoslav” Democratization
State weakness is one of the main obstacles for democratic stability. Yet under certain circumstances even a mere electoral democracy may gain stable support from the citizenry. Mere electoral democracy is best understood as a regime of elite governance endowed by a certain support from the citizens but without any ambition of the ruling elite to increase the quality of democratic rule. This article explores the historical reasons of this specifi…
The GDR Intelligentsia and its Forgotten Political Role during the Wende of 1989
The “fall of the Berlin Wall” is one of the great images of the last century. But the main outcome of this event, the unification of Germany, was not the only possible future in that time. Autumn 1989 in GDR was a historically open situation. Two of the four collective actors in the late GDR did not want to end their state but transform it into a renewed democratic one. The article aims to explain mainly the actions of the reform-oriented intelli…
Osteuropäische Demokratien als Trendsetter?
An Unexpected Dawn
From the perspective of post-1989, Soviet-style state socialism is seen as a historical dead end. This account of the attempt to reform state socialism in the Prague Spring of 1968 attempts a different interpretation. The reforms in Prague were a remarkable attempt to live up to the original Marxist ideal of a just and politically free modern society. What were the policies of the reformers around Alexander Dubček? How were these reforms at all p…
Parteiensysteme in postkommunistischen Gesellschaften Osteuropas
Einfuhrung - Parteien und Parteiensysteme in Ostmitteleuropa - Parteien und Parteiensysteme auf dem Balkan - Parteien und Parteiensysteme in den Nachfolgestaaten der Sowjetunion - Nachwort
Einleitung
Es ist die von Machiavelli aufgeworfene Problematik der Herrschaftsgründung und Herrschaftssicherung einer neuen politischen Ordnung, die im Mittelpunkt des 2. Systemwechselbandes steht. Allerdings geht die analytische Blickrichtung weit über die Fokussierung des Florentiners auf den Problemkreis der Herrschaftssicherung hinaus. Der Blick ist auf die Begründung, Legitimierung und Konsolidierung postautoritärer demokratischer Ordnungen gerichtet. …
The East German CDU
The East German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was a bloc party of the ruling SED but also had historical roots in the pre-fascist German past. In the political crisis in 1989 part of the party intelligentsia of the eastern CDU reinterpreted their former political orientation and also used the party history of their personal relations to the churches. This group gained the party leadership in the autumn of 1989 and became the leading politician…
Lessons from “Post-Yugoslav” Democratization
State weakness is one of the main obstacles for democratic stability. Yet under certain circumstances even a mere electoral democracy may gain stable support from the citizenry. Mere electoral democracy is best understood as a regime of elite governance endowed by a certain support from the citizens but without any ambition of the ruling elite to increase the quality of democratic rule. This article explores the historical reasons of this specifi…
The Crisis of Representative Democracy in the Post-Yugoslav Region. Discrepancies of Elite Policies and Citizens’ Expectations
If free and fair elections repeatedly fail to respond to popular dissatisfaction, then a crisis of representative democracy will emerge. In Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia, such a crisis is already undermining the legitimacy of their young democratic systems. Despite positive evaluations from democracy indices and EU reports, citizens are increasingly discontent and give little support to the existing political options. Understanding the …
The GDR Intelligentsia and its Forgotten Political Role during the Wende of 1989
The “fall of the Berlin Wall” is one of the great images of the last century. But the main outcome of this event, the unification of Germany, was not the only possible future in that time. Autumn 1989 in GDR was a historically open situation. Two of the four collective actors in the late GDR did not want to end their state but transform it into a renewed democratic one. The article aims to explain mainly the actions of the reform-oriented intelli…
Is There Really Something Like “Eastern Europe”? And If So, Why Do We Need Area Studies of It
Eastern Europe is more than only a pure geographical term; it is an invention of the eighteenth century. Later, it became a catchword for the Soviet bloc. The puzzle consists in the fact that it did not disappear after the end-of-state socialism. The paper presents good causes as to why there should be further pursuing of an academic discipline of area studies on Eastern Europe. The thesis will be demonstrated by resuming the discussion about the…
An Unexpected Dawn
From the perspective of post-1989, Soviet-style state socialism is seen as a historical dead end. This account of the attempt to reform state socialism in the Prague Spring of 1968 attempts a different interpretation. The reforms in Prague were a remarkable attempt to live up to the original Marxist ideal of a just and politically free modern society. What were the policies of the reformers around Alexander Dubček? How were these reforms at all p…
The East German CDU
The East German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was a bloc party of the ruling SED but also had historical roots in the pre-fascist German past. In the political crisis in 1989 part of the party intelligentsia of the eastern CDU reinterpreted their former political orientation and also used the party history of their personal relations to the churches. This group gained the party leadership in the autumn of 1989 and became the leading politician…
Einleitung
Es ist die von Machiavelli aufgeworfene Problematik der Herrschaftsgründung und Herrschaftssicherung einer neuen politischen Ordnung, die im Mittelpunkt des 2. Systemwechselbandes steht. Allerdings geht die analytische Blickrichtung weit über die Fokussierung des Florentiners auf den Problemkreis der Herrschaftssicherung hinaus. Der Blick ist auf die Begründung, Legitimierung und Konsolidierung postautoritärer demokratischer Ordnungen gerichtet. …
Parteiensysteme in postkommunistischen Gesellschaften Osteuropas
Einfuhrung - Parteien und Parteiensysteme in Ostmitteleuropa - Parteien und Parteiensysteme auf dem Balkan - Parteien und Parteiensysteme in den Nachfolgestaaten der Sowjetunion - Nachwort
Osteuropäische Demokratien als Trendsetter?
An Unexpected Dawn
From the perspective of post-1989, Soviet-style state socialism is seen as a historical dead end. This account of the attempt to reform state socialism in the Prague Spring of 1968 attempts a different interpretation. The reforms in Prague were a remarkable attempt to live up to the original Marxist ideal of a just and politically free modern society. What were the policies of the reformers around Alexander Dubček? How were these reforms at all p…
The GDR Intelligentsia and its Forgotten Political Role during the Wende of 1989
The “fall of the Berlin Wall” is one of the great images of the last century. But the main outcome of this event, the unification of Germany, was not the only possible future in that time. Autumn 1989 in GDR was a historically open situation. Two of the four collective actors in the late GDR did not want to end their state but transform it into a renewed democratic one. The article aims to explain mainly the actions of the reform-oriented intelli…
Lessons from “Post-Yugoslav” Democratization
State weakness is one of the main obstacles for democratic stability. Yet under certain circumstances even a mere electoral democracy may gain stable support from the citizenry. Mere electoral democracy is best understood as a regime of elite governance endowed by a certain support from the citizens but without any ambition of the ruling elite to increase the quality of democratic rule. This article explores the historical reasons of this specifi…
Thorsten Gromes, Ohne Staat und Nation ist keine Demokratie zu machen. Bosnien und Herzegowina, Kosovo und Makedonien nach den Bürgerkriegen
Article Thorsten Gromes, Ohne Staat und Nation ist keine Demokratie zu machen. Bosnien und Herzegowina, Kosovo und Makedonien nach den Bürgerkriegen was published on April 1, 2012 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 60, issue 4)
Introduction to the Issue
The Crisis of Representative Democracy in the Post-Yugoslav Region. Discrepancies of Elite Policies and Citizens’ Expectations
If free and fair elections repeatedly fail to respond to popular dissatisfaction, then a crisis of representative democracy will emerge. In Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia, such a crisis is already undermining the legitimacy of their young democratic systems. Despite positive evaluations from democracy indices and EU reports, citizens are increasingly discontent and give little support to the existing political options. Understanding the …
Transformationen in Osteuropa im 20. Jahrhundert
Osteuropa hat im 20. Jahrhundert zwei große Transformationen erlebt. Warum ist der Staatssozialismus dort entstanden? Was waren seine grundlegenden Probleme? Welches Erbe hat er hinterlassen? Was können wir im Westen aus dem radikalen Wandel des Ostens über die Gefährdungen unserer eigenen Ordnung lernen? Der Wiener Politikwissenschaftler Dieter Segert führt mit diesem Buch in die „Area Studies“ zu Osteuropa ein und diskutiert den Zusammenhang de…
Systemwechsel 2
Understanding the “footprint of state socialism” in east central European post-socialism
The paper outlines the debate on European state socialism as a social and political order. There are different attempts to obtain a better understanding of the core principles of this type of society and a continuing public debate on it. Following the end of the decade of the transition from “socialism to capitalism” we can observe a renewal in the debates on the “Ancient regime” and its heritage. There are different reasons for this phenomenon; …
Introduction to Special Issue on The Politics of East European Area Studies
The Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe (formerly titled Debatte) is an organ devoted to the study of Central and Eastern Europe; it is in disciplinary terms an “Area Studies” journa
Is There Really Something Like “Eastern Europe”? And If So, Why Do We Need Area Studies of It
Eastern Europe is more than only a pure geographical term; it is an invention of the eighteenth century. Later, it became a catchword for the Soviet bloc. The puzzle consists in the fact that it did not disappear after the end-of-state socialism. The paper presents good causes as to why there should be further pursuing of an academic discipline of area studies on Eastern Europe. The thesis will be demonstrated by resuming the discussion about the…
Die fragile Demokratisierung in Ostmitteleuropa in der Zwischenkriegszeit [The fragile democratization in East Central Europe in the interwar period]
At the end of the First World War a number of new national states emerged from the three disintegrating empires of tsarist Russia, Germany and Austria-Hungary. At the outset nearly all of these states in East Central Europe were liberal democracies based on the 1875 constitutional laws of the French Third Republic (1870–1940). Shortly afterwards, however, these liberal democracies were transformed into various forms of political dictatorship, the…
What war means – a lesson from Ukraine
Every day, people die. The war in Eastern Ukraine, which began in 2014, has claimed over 14,000 lives, according to the UN. Since 2022, a major war has raged across the entire country. The exact fi
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