Politicalcleavages Andpost-Communistpolitics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6232883 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Whitefield (0000-0002-5202-6195, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 181-200 |
| Publication date | 2002-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev.polisci.5.112601.144242 |
| OpenAlex | W2128358116 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 109 |
| References cited | 41 |
Considerable attention has been paid over the past decade to political cleavages in post-communist Eastern Europe. Investigators have attempted to establish whether such cleavages exist, to map their character, and to explain their formation theoretically. Research initially focused on whether communist rule had created distinctive forms of cleavage in the region as a whole, or indeed obliterated social capacity to form any structured social or ideological divisions. The results of this work, however, have tended to support a more differentiated and less sui generis understanding in which the character of cleavages varies considerably across the region. Debate has turned to accounting for the formation and variation in cleavages by reference to factors such as long-standing cultural legacies, forms of communist rule and modes of transition from it, the effects of social structure and individual social experience in the post-communist period, and the impact of institutions and party strategies
Biology · Character (mathematics · Cleavage (geology · Communism · Communist state · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Post communist · Sociology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Political Conflict and Governance
Cultural Unity, Economic Divergence
Radical Right
Electoral Engineering
Cultural Backlash
Hungary – A Hungarian Crisis or Just a Crisis in Hungary?
Conclusion
Ireland – Limited Restructuration in the Poster Child of Austerity
European Party Politics in Times of Crisis
New Dimensions of Political Cleavage
Spain – Out with the Old
Portugal – A Tale of Apparent Stability and Surreptitious Transformation
Crises and the Transformation of the National Political Space in Europe
Debunking the autocratic fallacy? Improving public goods delivery in Russia
Discursive (re)production of social cleavages in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary elections
Political cleavages in Serbia
When non-nationalist voters support ethno-nationalist parties
The EU Party System after Eastern Enlargement
Populismo y política de clivajes
Cleavage Structures and Voter Alignments within Nations
Unraveling the Black Mountain
Behind Every Good Lie Is a Grain of Truth
Predictors of illiberalism in Romania
Expert Ministers in New Democracies
Globalization and the Transformation of Political Attitude Structures at the Party Level in the Arab World
Party relevance and party survival in new democracies
Cleavages and Government in Slovenia and Montenegro
Introduction to the Special Issue
Representational Consistency
The rise of new populist political parties in Czech parliamentary elections between 2010 and 2017
Cleavages, electoral geography, and the territorialization of political parties in the Republic of Georgia
Nostalgic Voting? Explaining the Electoral Support for the Political Left in Post-Soviet Moldova
Authoritarian legacies and mass left–right regime support in new democracies
The other ‘other’
The quality of government determinants of support for democracy
Who would never grant them equal rights? A comparative analysis of welfare chauvinism in Central and Eastern Europe
The Social and Attitudinal Basis of Political Parties
The Nationalization of political parties and party systems in post-communist Eastern Europe
Don’t knows” and public opinion towards economic reform
Regime transition, value conflicts and the left-right divide at the mass level
The Dynamics of Party-System Supply and Demand in Poland, 1997–2007. Cleavage Change or Shapeless Shifting
Party Reforms and the Unbalancing of the Cleavage Structure in Russian Regional Elections, 2012–2015
Left–Right Orientations and Ideological Voting in New Democracies
Economic Change and Public Support for Democracy in China and Russia
Self-interest, Perceptions of Transition and Welfare Preferences in the New Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus
Opportunities Matter
The Politics of Culture and Identity in Postcommunist States
From fringe to fringe
The Persistence of Political Power
The Salience of European Integration to Party Competition
Clivaje
Predictors of fossil fuel taxation attitudes across post-communist and other Europe
Dimensionality, ideology and party positions towards European integration
The Failure of “Yugoslavia’s Last Chance”
Patterns of political instability
Parties in the Policy Space
Voting Rates 1989 to 2007
The Constant Electoral Flux? Party System and the Circulation of Candidates and Parliamentarians in Poland, 1989–2011
Regional Economic Voting
New parties with old labels
Food Comes First, Then Morals
Representation in New Democracies
Psychological Needs and Values Underlying Left-Right Political Orientation
Considering the Orange legacy
Why there is (almost) no Christian Democracy in post-communist Europe
Party Responsiveness on European Union Integration in Transition Democracies of Central and Eastern Europe
Populist Radical Right Parties in Central and Eastern Europe
Does the Iron Curtain Still Exist? The Convergence in Electoral Volatility between Eastern and Western Europe
Responding to growing European Union-skepticism? The stances of political parties toward European integration in Western and Eastern Europe following the financial crisis
The relationship between national identity and European Union evaluations, 1993–2017
Representing the compromise
Stepping in the same river twice
National protest agenda and the dimensionality of party politics
Representation through parties? Environmental attitudes and party stances in Europe in 2013
One electorate or many? Differences in party preference formation between new and established European democracies
Do expert surveys produce consistent estimates of party stances on European integration? Comparing expert surveys in the difficult case of Central and Eastern Europe
Understanding Pre-electoral Coalitions in Central and Eastern Europe
The Development of Stable Party Support
Political Conservatism and Left–Right Orientation in 28 E astern and W estern E uropean Countries
Gauging preference stability under authoritarianism
The Direction and Meaning of Left-Right in Postcommunist Societies
Cleavages Under Communism
Throwing out the Bums
The Authoritarian Left Withdraws from Politics
China’s Ideological Spectrum
From Values to Interests? The Evolution of Party Competition in New Democracies
Democratic Discontent in Old and New Democracies
Political Socialisation and Regime Change
Party Agency and the Religious—Secular Cleavage in Post-Communist Countries
Basic Personal Values and the Meaning of Left‐Right Political Orientations in 20 Countries
Party systems and cleavage structures revisited
Dimensions of political conflict in West and East
Poland’s Palikot Movement
How do Citizens in East Asian Democracies Understand Left and Right
Supranational identity, democratic attitudes, and political participation
Being unequal and seeing inequality
Nontax Revenue, Social Cleavages, and Authoritarian Stability in Mexico and Kenya
The Ideological Shadow of Authoritarianism
Understanding Cleavages in Party Systems
A Categorization Theory of Spatial Voting
Communist Legacy, Anti-Elite Sentiments, and Modernization Theory
Citizen politics in western democracies
Institutional Design in Post-Communist Societies
Subversive Institutions
Understanding Political Change
The New Institutional Architecture of Eastern Europe
The Two Majorities
Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation
Capitalism and Social Democracy
Post-Communist Party Systems
Social and ideological cleavage formation in post‐communist hungary
Party Politics in the Baltic States
The politics of interest in post-communist East Europe
Nations in Transit, 1998
The Formation of Party Systems in East Central Europe
Communist Parties in Transition
Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty
Identifying the Bases of Party Competition in Eastern Europe
Winners Take All
Political and Economic Markets
Emerging Party Systems in Post-Soviet Societies
The Structuring of Political Cleavages in Post-Communist Societies
Mass and Elite Political Outlooks in Post-Soviet Russia
Formation of Party Cleavages in Post-Communist Democracies
From the Sociology of Politics to Political Sociology
Elite Strategy, Social Cleavages, and Party Systems in a New Democracy
New Approaches to Political Cleavage
A Politics of Institutional Choice
Electoral Institutions, Cleavage Structures, and the Number of Parties
Society and transition in post-Soviet Russia
Attitude Organization in the General Public
Planning, Politics, and Shop-Floor Power
| Unique citing works | 109 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,74 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 108 |