Jeffrey S Kopstein
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 200373 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jeffrey S Kopstein |
| PRENOMES | Jeffrey S |
| SOBRENOME | Kopstein |
| ASSINATURA | KOPSTEIN J S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4585-1920 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 552 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Attitudes toward Jews on Campus before and after October 7, 2023
The outbreak of campus protests after the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 intensified the debate regarding Israel on campus. Protests organized by Students for Justice in Palestine and other groups sometimes disrupted academic operations and were sporadically accompanied by violent incidents. In a recent survey of Jewish students, Eitan Hersh (2024) found that Jewish students reported that between April 2022 and November/December 2023, t…
The Weimar/Russia Comparison Revisited
Just over a quarter-century ago, the authors published a widely read essay comparing Weimar Germany and Post-Soviet Russia in historical perspective. After Russia’s unprovoked assault on Ukraine, comparisons of Vladimir Putin’s regime with Nazi Germany are once again tragically relevant. Reexamining our arguments from 1997 shows the continuing relevance of the variables we emphasized in that essay: the burdensome legacies of the past imperial reg…
Wrecking the public sphere
Validating and testing a measure of anti‐semitism on support for QAnon and vote intention for Trump in 2020
Objective Knowledge on anti‐semitism and its effects as an attitude is limited. We seek to assess its relationship with other out‐group measures and its predictive ability on political judgments. We seek to (a) study the properties of a measure of anti‐semitism; (b) explore the relationship between anti‐semitism and other frequently used measures of out‐group attitudes; (c) assess the key demographic predictors of endorsement of anti‐semitic beli…
Assault on Democracy
Understanding the Global Patrimonial Wave
The past decade has witnessed a resurgence of patrimonial rule not only in the developing world but also, more surprisingly, in the developed West. This resurgence carries potentially dire consequences for responding to a range of pressing problems. Understanding the sources of contemporary patrimonialism is hindered by assimilating the phenomenon into the familiar democracy/autocracy typology or by assuming that it is a function of failed modern…
Is Russia really a normal country? A numerical taxonomy of Russia in comparative perspective
Antisemitism on a California Campus
The Plunder
The Plunder: The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg GaliciaDaniel Unowsky Daniel Unowsky, The Plunder: The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg Galicia (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018), 264 pp., cloth $65.00, electronic version available. Jeffrey Kopstein Jeffrey Kopstein University of California, Irvine Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 34, Issue 2, Fall 2…
William W. Hagen. Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1914–1920
During World War I and its aftermath, marauding armies and enraged civilians carried out hundreds of pogroms against Jewish civilians on the eastern front and in the borderlands between ethnographic Russia and Poland. These pogroms entailed theft, the destruction of private and communal property, torture, humiliation, rape, and murder. Historians have documented anti-Jewish riots and massacres in Russia and Ukraine. William W. Hagen, in Anti-Jewi…
Intimate Violence
Why do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg examine a particularly brutal wave of violence that occurred across hundreds of predominantly Polish and Ukrainian communities in the aftermath of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. The authors note that while some communities erupted in anti-Jewish violence, most others remained quiescent. In fact, fewer than 10 percent of communities saw pogr…
Intimate Violence
Why do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? This book address that age-old question through an examination of a particularly brutal wave of violence that occurred across hundreds of predominantly Polish and Ukrainian communities in the aftermath of the June, 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union. Exploiting the collapse of state authority, some Poles and Ukrainians viciously attacked their Jewish neighbors. Against explanations …
Explaining Violence Against Non-Combatants in Civil War
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Comment on Ian Lustick’s ‘The Holocaust in Israeli Political Culture: Four Constructions and Their Consequences’
Post-Communism, the Civilizing Process, and the Mixed Impact of Leninist Violence
Leninism and the central role that violence played in it is most commonly presented as a hindrance to democratic development in post-communist Eastern Europe. This paper reconsiders this proposition in light of the classics of comparative historical analysis. These classic works maintain that the long-term consequences of revolutionary violence sometimes counteract its short-term anti-democratic impact. Social change unleashed by revolution can c…
Between State Loyalty and National Identity
Deadly Communities
Why, after the outbreak of World War II in Eastern Europe, did the inhabitants of some communities erupt in violence against their Jewish neighbors? The authors hypothesize that the greater the degree of preexisting intercommunal polarization between Jews and the titular majority group, the more likely a pogrom. They test this proposition using an original data set of matched census and electoral returns from interwar Poland. Where Jews supported…
Beyond Dictatorship and Democracy
Most standard models of democratization privilege class-based actors and the regimes they prefer to account for patterns of dictatorship and democracy. These models are ill suited, however, to explain political regime change in interwar Eastern Europe, where the dominant cleavage was not class but nationality. As a consequence, neither the process of regime change nor the resulting regime outcomes in Eastern Europe conform to the standard Western…
As a Lens for the Communist Past and Post-communist Future
Political scientists have documented significant variation in political and economic outcomes of the 1989–91 revolutions. Countries bordering on western Europe have become relatively democratic and economically successful, with both democracy and wealth dropping off as one moves east and south. Explanations for this variation and the replication of an older pattern on the Eurasian landmass have moved farther and farther into the past. Yet in movi…
Does Familiarity Breed Contempt? Inter-Ethnic Contact and Support for Illiberal Parties
Does contact between ethnic groups lead to greater support for liberal parties? Research on this debate in the U.S. context is contaminated by high levels of mobility and a truncated party palette. This paper addresses the problem through an examination of the 1929 and 1935 national parliamentary elections in Czechoslovakia, where mobility was limited and the spectrum of parties was broad. We employ ecological inference on an original database of…
Anti-Americanism and the Transatlantic Relationship
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As Europe Gets Larger, Will It Disappear
Political theorists from Plato and Aristotle to Machiavelli and Montesquieu have frequently commented on the connection between the size of a political community and its coherence. The dominant strand of thought in Western political theory suggests the importance of restricting the size of a political unit. Small political units more readily maintain solidarity and find common interests among members than larger ones. Large political units, by co…
The transatlantic divide over democracy promotion
Potential disagreement exists between Europe and the United States over how, not whether, to promote democracy. Will democracy promotion become yet another new source of transatlantic tension, or is it an area in which they can work together
Honecker's Revenge
A core lesson of Germany's federal election of September 2005 is the enduring legacy of the communist past in East Germany, a legacy that substantially shapes politics in unified Germany. Fifteen years after unification, the crucial difference in German politics still lies in the East. The 2005 election demonstrated the enduring east-west divide in German party politics. The result is that Germany today has two coherent party systems, one in the …
Revue des revues
Distribution lectronique Cairn.info pour Presses de Sciences Po. Distribution lectronique Cairn.info pour Presses de Sciences Po. La reproduction ou reprsentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorise que dans les limites des conditions gnrales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement. Toute autre reproduction ou reprsentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque …
Geographic Diffusion and the Transformation of the Postcommunist World
Since the collapse of communism the states of postcommunist Europe and Asia have defined for themselves, and have had defined for them, two primary tasks: the construction of viable market economies and the establishment of working institutions of representative democracy. The variation in political and economic outcomes in the postcommunist space makes it, without question, the most diverse “region” in the world. What explains the variation? All…
Bad Civil Society
Examinant les differentes versions de l'argument de la societe civile en faveur de la democratie liberale, l'A. interroge les raisons socio-economiques qui poussent les gens a rejoindre de mauvaises organisations qui portent prejudice aux associations et a l'efficacite democratique
The Weimar/Russia Comparison
Research methodology in the information age: A comparison of two survey techniques.Survey research started in the 1930's when the "big three" pioneer commercial polling organizations went door to door gathering data to predict presidential elections, women's rights, or other timely topics of interest (Glenn, 1995).Seventy years later, as we enter the 21st century, technology has propelled survey research into new arenas of data collection.What wa…
Deadly Communities
Why, after the outbreak of World War II in Eastern Europe, did the inhabitants of some communities erupt in violence against their Jewish neighbors? The authors hypothesize that the greater the degree of preexisting intercommunal polarization between Jews and the titular majority group, the more likely a pogrom. They test this proposition using an original data set of matched census and electoral returns from interwar Poland. Where Jews supported…
Postcommunist Democracy
Beyond Dictatorship and Democracy
Most standard models of democratization privilege class-based actors and the regimes they prefer to account for patterns of dictatorship and democracy. These models are ill suited, however, to explain political regime change in interwar Eastern Europe, where the dominant cleavage was not class but nationality. As a consequence, neither the process of regime change nor the resulting regime outcomes in Eastern Europe conform to the standard Western…
Understanding the Global Patrimonial Wave
The past decade has witnessed a resurgence of patrimonial rule not only in the developing world but also, more surprisingly, in the developed West. This resurgence carries potentially dire consequences for responding to a range of pressing problems. Understanding the sources of contemporary patrimonialism is hindered by assimilating the phenomenon into the familiar democracy/autocracy typology or by assuming that it is a function of failed modern…
Chipping Away at the State
This article is a study of everyday resistance and political protest among East German workers under communism. It develops and adduces evidence for two hypotheses based on evidence from Communist Party and state archives. First, in contrast to the standard explanation for the revolution of 1989, which emphasizes intellectual and popular mobilization against the regime, this essay emphasizes the long-term capacity of otherwisepowerless workers to…
The transatlantic divide over democracy promotion
Potential disagreement exists between Europe and the United States over how, not whether, to promote democracy. Will democracy promotion become yet another new source of transatlantic tension, or is it an area in which they can work together
Does Familiarity Breed Contempt? Inter-Ethnic Contact and Support for Illiberal Parties
Does contact between ethnic groups lead to greater support for liberal parties? Research on this debate in the U.S. context is contaminated by high levels of mobility and a truncated party palette. This paper addresses the problem through an examination of the 1929 and 1935 national parliamentary elections in Czechoslovakia, where mobility was limited and the spectrum of parties was broad. We employ ecological inference on an original database of…
Who Voted Communist? Reconsidering the Social Bases of Radicalism in Interwar Poland
Research on the sources of support for the communists in interwar Poland has emphasized the role of ethnic minorities, especially the Jews. To what degree did Poland's national minorities vote for the Communist Party? Using census data and electoral returns on interwar Poland's 2*72 districts, as well as a new technique for inferring individual level behavior from aggregate level data, Jeffrey Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg generate reliable estim…
Explaining the Why of the Why
Regime Type and Diffusion in Comparative Politics Methodology
In recent years, several prominent political scientists have argued that quantitative and qualitative methodologies should be seen as united by a single logic of scientific inference. Just exactly how this reconciliation of quantitative and qualitative methodological approaches should be effected in practice, however, remains highly contentious. For all its promise, the project of uniting quantitative and qualitative methods in political science …
Wrecking the public sphere
The politics of national reconciliation
In 1997 the parliaments of both Germany and the Czech Republic ratified a joint declaration on reconciliation. The political conflict surrounding the agreement illustrates how collective memory influences and shapes ethnic relations. The path by which memories are institutionalized determines how they reenter politics. Although the purpose of the declaration was to clear the air and pave the way for a new era in ethnic relations in the region, Ge…
Paths to Uncivil Societies and Anti-Liberal States
As Europe Gets Larger, Will It Disappear
Political theorists from Plato and Aristotle to Machiavelli and Montesquieu have frequently commented on the connection between the size of a political community and its coherence. The dominant strand of thought in Western political theory suggests the importance of restricting the size of a political unit. Small political units more readily maintain solidarity and find common interests among members than larger ones. Large political units, by co…
Ulbricht embattled
Two GENERATIONS OF SCHOLARS have focused on the relationship between communism and modernity. On one view, communism embodied the very essence of modernity because of its reliance on instrumental rationality-the willingness to use any means to attain its desired end.1 To others, communism may have been moder, but it was a grand failure as far as 'modernisation' cum sustained economic advancement is concerned.2 The gap between modernity and modern…
Post-Communism, the Civilizing Process, and the Mixed Impact of Leninist Violence
Leninism and the central role that violence played in it is most commonly presented as a hindrance to democratic development in post-communist Eastern Europe. This paper reconsiders this proposition in light of the classics of comparative historical analysis. These classic works maintain that the long-term consequences of revolutionary violence sometimes counteract its short-term anti-democratic impact. Social change unleashed by revolution can c…
As a Lens for the Communist Past and Post-communist Future
Political scientists have documented significant variation in political and economic outcomes of the 1989–91 revolutions. Countries bordering on western Europe have become relatively democratic and economically successful, with both democracy and wealth dropping off as one moves east and south. Explanations for this variation and the replication of an older pattern on the Eurasian landmass have moved farther and farther into the past. Yet in movi…
Honecker's Revenge
A core lesson of Germany's federal election of September 2005 is the enduring legacy of the communist past in East Germany, a legacy that substantially shapes politics in unified Germany. Fifteen years after unification, the crucial difference in German politics still lies in the East. The 2005 election demonstrated the enduring east-west divide in German party politics. The result is that Germany today has two coherent party systems, one in the …
Anti-Americanism and the Transatlantic Relationship
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Ulbricht embattled
Two GENERATIONS OF SCHOLARS have focused on the relationship between communism and modernity. On one view, communism embodied the very essence of modernity because of its reliance on instrumental rationality-the willingness to use any means to attain its desired end.1 To others, communism may have been moder, but it was a grand failure as far as 'modernisation' cum sustained economic advancement is concerned.2 The gap between modernity and modern…
Chipping Away at the State
This article is a study of everyday resistance and political protest among East German workers under communism. It develops and adduces evidence for two hypotheses based on evidence from Communist Party and state archives. First, in contrast to the standard explanation for the revolution of 1989, which emphasizes intellectual and popular mobilization against the regime, this essay emphasizes the long-term capacity of otherwisepowerless workers to…
The politics of national reconciliation
In 1997 the parliaments of both Germany and the Czech Republic ratified a joint declaration on reconciliation. The political conflict surrounding the agreement illustrates how collective memory influences and shapes ethnic relations. The path by which memories are institutionalized determines how they reenter politics. Although the purpose of the declaration was to clear the air and pave the way for a new era in ethnic relations in the region, Ge…
What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?Katherine Verdery Princeton
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The Weimar/Russia Comparison
Research methodology in the information age: A comparison of two survey techniques.Survey research started in the 1930's when the "big three" pioneer commercial polling organizations went door to door gathering data to predict presidential elections, women's rights, or other timely topics of interest (Glenn, 1995).Seventy years later, as we enter the 21st century, technology has propelled survey research into new arenas of data collection.What wa…
The Politics of Economic Decline in East Germany, 1945-1989
Paths to Uncivil Societies and Anti-Liberal States
The Politics of Economic Decline in East Germany, 1945-1989
Explaining the Why of the Why
Geographic Diffusion and the Transformation of the Postcommunist World
Since the collapse of communism the states of postcommunist Europe and Asia have defined for themselves, and have had defined for them, two primary tasks: the construction of viable market economies and the establishment of working institutions of representative democracy. The variation in political and economic outcomes in the postcommunist space makes it, without question, the most diverse “region” in the world. What explains the variation? All…
Bad Civil Society
Examinant les differentes versions de l'argument de la societe civile en faveur de la democratie liberale, l'A. interroge les raisons socio-economiques qui poussent les gens a rejoindre de mauvaises organisations qui portent prejudice aux associations et a l'efficacite democratique
The GDR
Gareth Pritchard, The Making of the GDR: From Anti-Fascism to Stalinism, 1945-1953 (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2000)M.E. Sarotte, Dealing with the Devil: East Germany and Ostpolitik, 1969-1973 (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001
Postcommunist Democracy
Who Voted Communist? Reconsidering the Social Bases of Radicalism in Interwar Poland
Research on the sources of support for the communists in interwar Poland has emphasized the role of ethnic minorities, especially the Jews. To what degree did Poland's national minorities vote for the Communist Party? Using census data and electoral returns on interwar Poland's 2*72 districts, as well as a new technique for inferring individual level behavior from aggregate level data, Jeffrey Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg generate reliable estim…
Revue des revues
Distribution lectronique Cairn.info pour Presses de Sciences Po. Distribution lectronique Cairn.info pour Presses de Sciences Po. La reproduction ou reprsentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorise que dans les limites des conditions gnrales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement. Toute autre reproduction ou reprsentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque …
Regime Type and Diffusion in Comparative Politics Methodology
In recent years, several prominent political scientists have argued that quantitative and qualitative methodologies should be seen as united by a single logic of scientific inference. Just exactly how this reconciliation of quantitative and qualitative methodological approaches should be effected in practice, however, remains highly contentious. For all its promise, the project of uniting quantitative and qualitative methods in political science …
Rereading The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power
As Europe Gets Larger, Will It Disappear
Political theorists from Plato and Aristotle to Machiavelli and Montesquieu have frequently commented on the connection between the size of a political community and its coherence. The dominant strand of thought in Western political theory suggests the importance of restricting the size of a political unit. Small political units more readily maintain solidarity and find common interests among members than larger ones. Large political units, by co…
The transatlantic divide over democracy promotion
Potential disagreement exists between Europe and the United States over how, not whether, to promote democracy. Will democracy promotion become yet another new source of transatlantic tension, or is it an area in which they can work together
Honecker's Revenge
A core lesson of Germany's federal election of September 2005 is the enduring legacy of the communist past in East Germany, a legacy that substantially shapes politics in unified Germany. Fifteen years after unification, the crucial difference in German politics still lies in the East. The 2005 election demonstrated the enduring east-west divide in German party politics. The result is that Germany today has two coherent party systems, one in the …
As a Lens for the Communist Past and Post-communist Future
Political scientists have documented significant variation in political and economic outcomes of the 1989–91 revolutions. Countries bordering on western Europe have become relatively democratic and economically successful, with both democracy and wealth dropping off as one moves east and south. Explanations for this variation and the replication of an older pattern on the Eurasian landmass have moved farther and farther into the past. Yet in movi…
Does Familiarity Breed Contempt? Inter-Ethnic Contact and Support for Illiberal Parties
Does contact between ethnic groups lead to greater support for liberal parties? Research on this debate in the U.S. context is contaminated by high levels of mobility and a truncated party palette. This paper addresses the problem through an examination of the 1929 and 1935 national parliamentary elections in Czechoslovakia, where mobility was limited and the spectrum of parties was broad. We employ ecological inference on an original database of…
Anti-Americanism and the Transatlantic Relationship
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Beyond Dictatorship and Democracy
Most standard models of democratization privilege class-based actors and the regimes they prefer to account for patterns of dictatorship and democracy. These models are ill suited, however, to explain political regime change in interwar Eastern Europe, where the dominant cleavage was not class but nationality. As a consequence, neither the process of regime change nor the resulting regime outcomes in Eastern Europe conform to the standard Western…
Deadly Communities
Why, after the outbreak of World War II in Eastern Europe, did the inhabitants of some communities erupt in violence against their Jewish neighbors? The authors hypothesize that the greater the degree of preexisting intercommunal polarization between Jews and the titular majority group, the more likely a pogrom. They test this proposition using an original data set of matched census and electoral returns from interwar Poland. Where Jews supported…
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