The Czech Republic
Fifteen Years Later
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2397700 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jan Keller (0000-0003-4660-6844, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 471-485 |
| Publication date | 2005-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1368431005056424 |
| OpenAlex | W2131425012 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
This article discusses some aspects of developments in the Czech Republic during the 15 years since the downfall of the Communist regime. At the level of social structures, the dominant trend has been a rapid growth of inequality, which has blocked the development of a middle-class society. At the political level, the most salient tendency is the growth of a 'silent majority', not least due to the murky methods of privatization and the manifest corruption among the new elite. The problems of the ecological movement exemplify the difficulties faced by nascent civil societies in post-Communist conditions. Finally, the author tries to identify likely trends linked to the dynamic of globalization. Here the most serious problem is the stagnation or even decline of the employees and small entrepreneurs who were once expected to become the backbone of civil society
Civil society · Communism · Czech · Development economics · Economics · Elite · Globalization · Inequality · Language change · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Salient · Sociology · Hungarian Social, Economic and Educational Studies · Law · Post-Communist Economic and Political Transition
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2011 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |