Donna Bahry
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 340392 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Donna Bahry |
| PRENOMES | Donna |
| SOBRENOME | Bahry |
| ASSINATURA | BAHRY D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9954-4101 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 383 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1975 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Gender and the Reelection of Democratic Leaders
Since the 1960s, increasing numbers of women have won the highest office in the world’s democracies despite clear gender effects in gaining office. But does reelection show the same gendered effects? Recent research suggests that compared to male leaders, women leaders often come to high office in more difficult conditions; enter with lower approval ratings; and experience more rapid decline in ratings over time. We know little, however, about th…
Populism and the Prosecution of Former Democratic Leaders
The rise of populist leaders to power in recent decades has prompted a growing literature on the impacts of populist rule, especially in democracies. Research addressing the effects on key democratic institutions finds the result to be predominantly negative: populist rule undermines several key mechanisms of accountability. Checks on the executive, media freedom, and rule of law all reportedly grow weaker under populist leaders. But are populist…
Women entrepreneurs in Russia and other countries
This article addresses gender differences in entrepreneurship in Russia, with a focus on how the Russian case compares with a set of selected benchmark countries. Utilizing primarily GEM data, we examine aspects of entrepreneurial culture, individual attitudes and resources, rates of entrepreneurship, and barriers to starting a new business
Executive Turnover and the Investigation of Former Leaders in New Democracies
What prompts governments in new democracies to investigate elected leaders once they leave office? Theorizing about democratic regimes suggests that leadership turnover by constitutional means should generate few such cases: democratic entry to and exit from office are thought to prompt benign treatment from successor administrations. Yet over a third of democratically elected presidents and prime ministers who left office between 1970 and 2011 h…
Family Socialization, Trust and Change
Social science debates about sources of generalized trust have prompted growing attention to how children develop faith in others. Much of the evidence, however, has come from relatively stable and prosperous societies. How might children's trust differ in societies that have experienced rapid and destabilizing transitions, as in postcommunist states? Using new evidence on Russia from three waves of a survey between 2006 and 2014, the authors sho…
Opposition to Immigration, Economic Insecurity and Individual Values
Since 1991, Russia has become one of the leading immigration destinations in the industrialised world. The inflow has prompted substantial public opposition, as surveys show that half or more of the public want to limit new arrivals. The sources of public disapproval, however, are unclear: while public discourse includes complaints about perceived economic and cultural ills of immigration, research on public opinion finds that neither economic no…
Russia Transformed
Interrupted Presidencies in Third Wave Democracies
Since 1974, popularly elected presidents in a number of Third Wave democracies have resigned or been removed from office, casting doubt on classic assumptions about the inflexibility of presidential terms. Accounting for this pattern of interruptions has been difficult, however, since some cross-national studies rely on limited samples and some yield conflicting results. We reexamine the sources of presidential interruptions in new democracies fr…
The New Federalism and the Paradoxes of Regional Sovereignty in Russia
face additional problems, including significant pockets of traditional rule, corruption, and provincial resistance to centrally imposed market reform.3 Russia's transition would seem to be a classic example. During the 1990s ethnic republics and predominantly Russian regions challenged the center on revenue collec tion, erected barriers to interregional trade, and adopted laws and decrees at variance with federal ones. Regional leaders also press…
Ethnicity and Trust
The willingness to trust strangers has been associated with a variety of public benefits, from greater civic-mindedness and more honest government to higher rates of economic growth, and more. But a growing body of research finds that such generalized trust is far more common in ethnically homogeneous than in more diverse societies. Ethnic difference is believed to breed more particularistic, ingroup ties, thus undermining both generalized and cr…
Ethnicity and Equality in Post-communist Economic Transition
For ethnically diverse societies, as in Russia, the post-communist economic transition implies a restructuring of the old cultural division of labor – the distribution of occupations and rewards among ethnic groups. The Soviet commitment to affirmative action policies for non-Russian regions and their resident minorities unraveled along with the USSR. And without central controls over employment and wages, education, and investment, the federal g…
Economic adversity and public mobilization in Russia
Comrades into Citizens? Russian Political Culture and Public Support for the Transition
Since 1989, the question of public values has been one of the most critical and the most controversial in the study of postcommunist politics. While there seems to be a consensus that people should accept democratic and market-based norms, there is little agreement on how much they actually do so-or on how much they need to, if markets and democracy are to survive
Empirical Political Analysis
Introduction. 1. The Research Process. I. PREPARING TO DO RESEARCH. 2. Theory Building: Concepts & Hypotheses in Political Research. 3. Setting the Foundation: Techniques of Systematic Bibliographic Research. 4. From Abstract to Concrete: Operationalization & Measurement. 5. Working from a Plan: Considerations in Research Design. 6. Who, What, Where: The Problem of Sampling. II. DATA-GATHERING TECHNIQUES. 7. Survey Research. 8. Scaling Techniques…
Tolerance, Transition, and Support for Civil Liberties in Russia
Research on the U.S.S.R. and its successor states since the late Gorbachev era has found substantial public support for the idea of free elections, multiple parties, and expanded civil rights. But it also points to a gap between support for democratic values in the abstract versus willingness to apply them in practice. People who profess democratic values ( demophiles) appear to be all too willing to deny rights to groups they dislike. Interpreta…
Activities and Appointments
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Citizen Activism in the Russian Transition
Two American specialists on Russia report the results of two nationwide surveys conducted in that country in 1992 (N = 1,393) and 1993 (N = 1,598). Focus was on rates and types of political activism and their correlation with attitudes toward economic and political reform. Conclusions are that different types of political activism attract different constituencies. People with higher income and occupational status participate in a wide range of ac…
Society Transformed? Rethinking the Social Roots of Perestroika
Since the early days of perestroika, explanations for the Soviet opening to reform have emphasized the critical role of post-Stalin social transformation. Rising levels of education, changing patterns of social mobility and increasing urbanization seemed to create a new set of values and expectations by 1985 at odds with the Soviet system's traditional controls. If the initiative for restructuring came from the upper reaches of the political hier…
Republican Economic Reforms
Republican reforms are an interesting topic, especially for those of us who have despaired of the prospect for any real market reforms by the central government. The last year has provided a ray of hope. The governments in the Baltics, Armenia, the RSFSR, and later Kazakhstan, all announced plans for privatization and the creation of a market system that extended well beyond those of the central government. Whereas central initiatives—there now a…
Ralph Bunche Summer Institute
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Political Attitudes and the Gender Gap in the USSR
significantly from those of men. Most research on gender differences in political attitudes has focused on western capitalist systems. This paper will expand that focus and use new evidence from a survey of 2,793 former Soviet citizens to determine whether significant differences exist between Soviet men and women in their attitudes toward politics and on a range of policy issues. The Soviet case is especially interesting, on the one hand, becaus…
Public Perceptions and the Dilemmas of Party Reform in the USSR
Although the literature on Soviet politics has described the breakdown of discipline and effectiveness of the party under Gorbachev's predecessors, it has paid little attention to individual differences in perceptions of the party and how these differences reflect differences in individual experiences. This study examines the relationship of individual differences in the perceptions of the honesty and competence of local and central party leaders…
Soviet Citizen Participation on the Eve of Democratization
We reassess the debate over Soviet citizen politics in the USSR during the Brezhnev era. We argue the need for a more complex model of citizen participation in the USSR before Gorbachev if we are to have an accurate baseline for evaluating changes in regime-society relations. We examine the connections between individual attitudes and individual behavior and show that political participation under the "old regime" was not nearly as one-dimensiona…
Outside Moscow. Power, Politics, and Budgetary Policy in the Soviet Republics
Politics, Work, and Daily Life in the USSR
Politics, work, and daily life in the USSR is designed to illustrate how the Soviet social system really works and how the Soviet people cope with it. This study is based on the first comprehensive survey of life in the USSR since the Harvard Project over thiry-three years ago. The essays contained analyze the variations in attitude and behaviour reflected in the findings of the Soviet Interview Project, a five-year investigation of contemporary …
Ethnicity and Trust
The willingness to trust strangers has been associated with a variety of public benefits, from greater civic-mindedness and more honest government to higher rates of economic growth, and more. But a growing body of research finds that such generalized trust is far more common in ethnically homogeneous than in more diverse societies. Ethnic difference is believed to breed more particularistic, ingroup ties, thus undermining both generalized and cr…
Soviet Citizen Participation on the Eve of Democratization
We reassess the debate over Soviet citizen politics in the USSR during the Brezhnev era. We argue the need for a more complex model of citizen participation in the USSR before Gorbachev if we are to have an accurate baseline for evaluating changes in regime-society relations. We examine the connections between individual attitudes and individual behavior and show that political participation under the "old regime" was not nearly as one-dimensiona…
Political Attitudes and the Gender Gap in the USSR
significantly from those of men. Most research on gender differences in political attitudes has focused on western capitalist systems. This paper will expand that focus and use new evidence from a survey of 2,793 former Soviet citizens to determine whether significant differences exist between Soviet men and women in their attitudes toward politics and on a range of policy issues. The Soviet case is especially interesting, on the one hand, becaus…
Society Transformed? Rethinking the Social Roots of Perestroika
Since the early days of perestroika, explanations for the Soviet opening to reform have emphasized the critical role of post-Stalin social transformation. Rising levels of education, changing patterns of social mobility and increasing urbanization seemed to create a new set of values and expectations by 1985 at odds with the Soviet system's traditional controls. If the initiative for restructuring came from the upper reaches of the political hier…
Interrupted Presidencies in Third Wave Democracies
Since 1974, popularly elected presidents in a number of Third Wave democracies have resigned or been removed from office, casting doubt on classic assumptions about the inflexibility of presidential terms. Accounting for this pattern of interruptions has been difficult, however, since some cross-national studies rely on limited samples and some yield conflicting results. We reexamine the sources of presidential interruptions in new democracies fr…
Tolerance, Transition, and Support for Civil Liberties in Russia
Research on the U.S.S.R. and its successor states since the late Gorbachev era has found substantial public support for the idea of free elections, multiple parties, and expanded civil rights. But it also points to a gap between support for democratic values in the abstract versus willingness to apply them in practice. People who profess democratic values ( demophiles) appear to be all too willing to deny rights to groups they dislike. Interpreta…
Intimidation and the Symbolic Uses of Terror in the USSR
Theories of regime-society relations in Communist states stress the central role of coercion in maintaining political control. Based on a survey of Soviet emigrants, we examine whether Soviet citizens are deterred from nonconformity by the punitive actions of the KGB (individual deterrence), a perception of the KGB's coercive potential (general deterrence), or mistrust of other people. We find that few respondents were directly coerced by the KGB…
The New Federalism and the Paradoxes of Regional Sovereignty in Russia
face additional problems, including significant pockets of traditional rule, corruption, and provincial resistance to centrally imposed market reform.3 Russia's transition would seem to be a classic example. During the 1990s ethnic republics and predominantly Russian regions challenged the center on revenue collec tion, erected barriers to interregional trade, and adopted laws and decrees at variance with federal ones. Regional leaders also press…
Half Full or Half Empty
Ever since the early days of Bolshevik rule, Soviet leaders have promised to equalize socioeconomic development among the union republics. Their reasons, as I. S. Koropeckyj notes, have ranged from the ideological to the purely political. Equality is deemed an ideological necessity: every region must achieve a similarly advanced stage of development in order to pave the way for communism. Regional equality is also viewed as a way to defuse the na…
Opposition to Immigration, Economic Insecurity and Individual Values
Since 1991, Russia has become one of the leading immigration destinations in the industrialised world. The inflow has prompted substantial public opposition, as surveys show that half or more of the public want to limit new arrivals. The sources of public disapproval, however, are unclear: while public discourse includes complaints about perceived economic and cultural ills of immigration, research on public opinion finds that neither economic no…
Economic adversity and public mobilization in Russia
Citizen Activism in the Russian Transition
Two American specialists on Russia report the results of two nationwide surveys conducted in that country in 1992 (N = 1,393) and 1993 (N = 1,598). Focus was on rates and types of political activism and their correlation with attitudes toward economic and political reform. Conclusions are that different types of political activism attract different constituencies. People with higher income and occupational status participate in a wide range of ac…
Dependent Development
This paper conceptualizes the political economy of the Soviet bloc in terms of concepts used to describe 'classic dependence' and 'dependent development' in the capitalist periphery. In particular, the rapid economic growth that occurred in Eastern Europe between the mid-1950s and mid-1970s can be termed 'dependent development' because the primary stimulus for it came from an external dominator (the Soviet Union) and because the process of econom…
Ethnicity and Equality in Post-communist Economic Transition
For ethnically diverse societies, as in Russia, the post-communist economic transition implies a restructuring of the old cultural division of labor – the distribution of occupations and rewards among ethnic groups. The Soviet commitment to affirmative action policies for non-Russian regions and their resident minorities unraveled along with the USSR. And without central controls over employment and wages, education, and investment, the federal g…
Outside Moscow. Power, Politics, and Budgetary Policy in the Soviet Republics
Comrades into Citizens? Russian Political Culture and Public Support for the Transition
Since 1989, the question of public values has been one of the most critical and the most controversial in the study of postcommunist politics. While there seems to be a consensus that people should accept democratic and market-based norms, there is little agreement on how much they actually do so-or on how much they need to, if markets and democracy are to survive
Public Perceptions and the Dilemmas of Party Reform in the USSR
Although the literature on Soviet politics has described the breakdown of discipline and effectiveness of the party under Gorbachev's predecessors, it has paid little attention to individual differences in perceptions of the party and how these differences reflect differences in individual experiences. This study examines the relationship of individual differences in the perceptions of the honesty and competence of local and central party leaders…
Executive Turnover and the Investigation of Former Leaders in New Democracies
What prompts governments in new democracies to investigate elected leaders once they leave office? Theorizing about democratic regimes suggests that leadership turnover by constitutional means should generate few such cases: democratic entry to and exit from office are thought to prompt benign treatment from successor administrations. Yet over a third of democratically elected presidents and prime ministers who left office between 1970 and 2011 h…
Measuring Communist Priorities
Research on communist systems has in the past decade come increasingly to focus on the making and impact of public policy, and to rely on fiscal data as one of the most abundant sources of information about communist priorities. Yet although government budgets and investments offer the advantages of quantification, and permit comparisons both within and across nations, they can be inconsistent and ambiguous measures of communist priorities. Label…
Family Socialization, Trust and Change
Social science debates about sources of generalized trust have prompted growing attention to how children develop faith in others. Much of the evidence, however, has come from relatively stable and prosperous societies. How might children's trust differ in societies that have experienced rapid and destabilizing transitions, as in postcommunist states? Using new evidence on Russia from three waves of a survey between 2006 and 2014, the authors sho…
Financing Development and Tax Structure Change in the USSR
AbstractLes économies socialistes ne sont que rarement inclues dans les études empiriques de la taxation par suite de données limitées et aussi à cause de la présomption que les systèmes socialistes de taxation sont différents d’une manière qui leur est propre de ceux des économies de marché. Cette étude soumet que le developpe ment de la taxation soviétique a suivi le modèle typique de la plupart des systèmes non socialistes: depuis 1917 l’URSS …
Soviet Policy in East Europe
Essay| October 01 1975 Soviet Policy in East Europe Roger E. Kanet, Roger E. Kanet Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois Roger E. Kanet has recently edited The Soviet Union and the Developing Nations (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974), to which he also contributed, and Soviet and East European Foreign Policies: A Bibliography (Santa Barbara: Clio Press, 1974) Search for other works by this author on: This…
Soviet Economic and Political Relations with the Developing World
Financing Development and Tax Structure Change in the USSR
AbstractLes économies socialistes ne sont que rarement inclues dans les études empiriques de la taxation par suite de données limitées et aussi à cause de la présomption que les systèmes socialistes de taxation sont différents d’une manière qui leur est propre de ceux des économies de marché. Cette étude soumet que le developpe ment de la taxation soviétique a suivi le modèle typique de la plupart des systèmes non socialistes: depuis 1917 l’URSS …
Effects of Public and Private Sector Decisions on Health Care Costs
Measuring Communist Priorities
Research on communist systems has in the past decade come increasingly to focus on the making and impact of public policy, and to rely on fiscal data as one of the most abundant sources of information about communist priorities. Yet although government budgets and investments offer the advantages of quantification, and permit comparisons both within and across nations, they can be inconsistent and ambiguous measures of communist priorities. Label…
Rejoinder To Bunce and Welch
Half Full or Half Empty
Ever since the early days of Bolshevik rule, Soviet leaders have promised to equalize socioeconomic development among the union republics. Their reasons, as I. S. Koropeckyj notes, have ranged from the ideological to the purely political. Equality is deemed an ideological necessity: every region must achieve a similarly advanced stage of development in order to pave the way for communism. Regional equality is also viewed as a way to defuse the na…
Dependent Development
This paper conceptualizes the political economy of the Soviet bloc in terms of concepts used to describe 'classic dependence' and 'dependent development' in the capitalist periphery. In particular, the rapid economic growth that occurred in Eastern Europe between the mid-1950s and mid-1970s can be termed 'dependent development' because the primary stimulus for it came from an external dominator (the Soviet Union) and because the process of econom…
Politics, Work, and Daily Life in the USSR
Politics, work, and daily life in the USSR is designed to illustrate how the Soviet social system really works and how the Soviet people cope with it. This study is based on the first comprehensive survey of life in the USSR since the Harvard Project over thiry-three years ago. The essays contained analyze the variations in attitude and behaviour reflected in the findings of the Soviet Interview Project, a five-year investigation of contemporary …
Intimidation and the Symbolic Uses of Terror in the USSR
Theories of regime-society relations in Communist states stress the central role of coercion in maintaining political control. Based on a survey of Soviet emigrants, we examine whether Soviet citizens are deterred from nonconformity by the punitive actions of the KGB (individual deterrence), a perception of the KGB's coercive potential (general deterrence), or mistrust of other people. We find that few respondents were directly coerced by the KGB…
Outside Moscow. Power, Politics, and Budgetary Policy in the Soviet Republics
Ralph Bunche Summer Institute
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Political Attitudes and the Gender Gap in the USSR
significantly from those of men. Most research on gender differences in political attitudes has focused on western capitalist systems. This paper will expand that focus and use new evidence from a survey of 2,793 former Soviet citizens to determine whether significant differences exist between Soviet men and women in their attitudes toward politics and on a range of policy issues. The Soviet case is especially interesting, on the one hand, becaus…
Public Perceptions and the Dilemmas of Party Reform in the USSR
Although the literature on Soviet politics has described the breakdown of discipline and effectiveness of the party under Gorbachev's predecessors, it has paid little attention to individual differences in perceptions of the party and how these differences reflect differences in individual experiences. This study examines the relationship of individual differences in the perceptions of the honesty and competence of local and central party leaders…
Soviet Citizen Participation on the Eve of Democratization
We reassess the debate over Soviet citizen politics in the USSR during the Brezhnev era. We argue the need for a more complex model of citizen participation in the USSR before Gorbachev if we are to have an accurate baseline for evaluating changes in regime-society relations. We examine the connections between individual attitudes and individual behavior and show that political participation under the "old regime" was not nearly as one-dimensiona…
Republican Economic Reforms
Republican reforms are an interesting topic, especially for those of us who have despaired of the prospect for any real market reforms by the central government. The last year has provided a ray of hope. The governments in the Baltics, Armenia, the RSFSR, and later Kazakhstan, all announced plans for privatization and the creation of a market system that extended well beyond those of the central government. Whereas central initiatives—there now a…
Society Transformed? Rethinking the Social Roots of Perestroika
Since the early days of perestroika, explanations for the Soviet opening to reform have emphasized the critical role of post-Stalin social transformation. Rising levels of education, changing patterns of social mobility and increasing urbanization seemed to create a new set of values and expectations by 1985 at odds with the Soviet system's traditional controls. If the initiative for restructuring came from the upper reaches of the political hier…
Citizen Activism in the Russian Transition
Two American specialists on Russia report the results of two nationwide surveys conducted in that country in 1992 (N = 1,393) and 1993 (N = 1,598). Focus was on rates and types of political activism and their correlation with attitudes toward economic and political reform. Conclusions are that different types of political activism attract different constituencies. People with higher income and occupational status participate in a wide range of ac…
Activities and Appointments
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Tolerance, Transition, and Support for Civil Liberties in Russia
Research on the U.S.S.R. and its successor states since the late Gorbachev era has found substantial public support for the idea of free elections, multiple parties, and expanded civil rights. But it also points to a gap between support for democratic values in the abstract versus willingness to apply them in practice. People who profess democratic values ( demophiles) appear to be all too willing to deny rights to groups they dislike. Interpreta…
Empirical Political Analysis
Introduction. 1. The Research Process. I. PREPARING TO DO RESEARCH. 2. Theory Building: Concepts & Hypotheses in Political Research. 3. Setting the Foundation: Techniques of Systematic Bibliographic Research. 4. From Abstract to Concrete: Operationalization & Measurement. 5. Working from a Plan: Considerations in Research Design. 6. Who, What, Where: The Problem of Sampling. II. DATA-GATHERING TECHNIQUES. 7. Survey Research. 8. Scaling Techniques…
Comrades into Citizens? Russian Political Culture and Public Support for the Transition
Since 1989, the question of public values has been one of the most critical and the most controversial in the study of postcommunist politics. While there seems to be a consensus that people should accept democratic and market-based norms, there is little agreement on how much they actually do so-or on how much they need to, if markets and democracy are to survive
Economic adversity and public mobilization in Russia
Ethnicity and Equality in Post-communist Economic Transition
For ethnically diverse societies, as in Russia, the post-communist economic transition implies a restructuring of the old cultural division of labor – the distribution of occupations and rewards among ethnic groups. The Soviet commitment to affirmative action policies for non-Russian regions and their resident minorities unraveled along with the USSR. And without central controls over employment and wages, education, and investment, the federal g…
The New Federalism and the Paradoxes of Regional Sovereignty in Russia
face additional problems, including significant pockets of traditional rule, corruption, and provincial resistance to centrally imposed market reform.3 Russia's transition would seem to be a classic example. During the 1990s ethnic republics and predominantly Russian regions challenged the center on revenue collec tion, erected barriers to interregional trade, and adopted laws and decrees at variance with federal ones. Regional leaders also press…
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