Legitimation from the Top to Civil Society
Politico-Cultural Change in Eastern Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8042786 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Giuseppe Di Palma (0000-0002-5530-9107, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-80 |
| Publication date | 1991-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8871 • E-ISSN: 1086-3338 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2010423 |
| OpenAlex | W2161573417 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 65 |
| References cited | 24 |
Communism has collapsed in Eastern Europe because the regimes, no ionger justified by their Soviet hegemon, lost confidence in their “mandate from heaven.” Domestically and internationally discredited, East European regimes had traditionally shielded themselves behind a principle of legitimation from the top that saw communism as the global fulfillment of a universal theory of history. Once the theory became utterly indefensible, a crippling legitimacy vacuum ensued. Reacting against that theory, East European dissent, and a civil society of sorts, survived under communism not just as an underground political adversary but as a visible cultural and existential counterimage of communism. This fact must be given proper weight when assessing the capacity of civil society to rebound in postcommunist Eastern Europe
Civil society · Communism · Dissent · Hegemony · Legitimacy · Legitimation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Soviet and Russian History
Legitimating Identities
Civil Society as an Analytic Lens for Contemporary China
Towards a political economy of transition in Eastern Europe
The Democratic Peace and Territorial Conflict in the Twentieth Century
The Weakness of Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe
Where Did the Revolution Go
The Social Requisites of Democracy Revisited
Democracy Derailed in Russia
Hacia una sociología evolucionista de la revolución
Legitimationsstrategien von Autokratien
Classifying political regimes revisited
Organized interests in the policy-making process in Slovenia
Regime collapse in the peaceful East German revolution
Hacia una sociología evolucionista de la revolución
Ethnopluralism
A Geographic Incremental Theory of Democratization
Legitimacy
Divine kingship and Afro-Byzantine political theology through syncretism
Seizing the Window of Strategic Opportunity’
On the Other Side of the Curtain
Ethnic Identity and Civil Society in Latvia, Poland and Ukraine
Look for the Blind Spot where Structural Realism Meets Pluralistic Stagnation
Post‐Soviet Ukraine
Legitimation and democratization in a transitional China
The prospects for democratization in China
Police legitimacy and culture revisited through the lens of self-legitimacy
Co-optation or Empowerment? The Fate of Pro-Democracy NGOs after the Rose Revolution
Explaining regime change in the Soviet Union
The Revolutions of 1989
Le statut de la doctrine marxiste-léniniste en société communiste
Culture, Strategy, and State-Centered Explanations of Revolution, 1789 and 1989
Nonelectoral Participation in Deeply Divided Societies
Communist regimes, legitimacy and the transition to democracy in Eastern Europe
Understanding Political Change in Eastern Europe
From Transformation to Modernization
Authoritarianism or democracy? Marketization as a political problem
Democracy Derailed in Russia
Nationalism, civil society, and the revolution of 1989
Mass Movements and Plebiscitary Democracy
Myths from Eastern Europe and the legend of the west
What makes political authorities legitimate? Students’ ideas about legitimacy in five European democracies and hybrid regimes
Revolution and elite transformation in Eastern Europe
Legitimating Identities
Women and Democratization Conceptualizing Gender Relations in Transition Politics
Accommodation or ‘cleansing
Searching for Transitologists
Russian Studies Without Studying
In Defense of Sovietology
Elections in Hybrid Regimes
How Much Is Enough? Excessive Pluralism as the Cause of Poland's Socio-economic Crisis
Understanding change in international politics
Elite intransigence and the end of the Berlin Wall
Why Leipzig? ‘Exit’ and ‘voice’ in the East German revolution
The Internal Value of External Options
State-society relations and the sources of support for the Putin regime
Information Technology, Public Space, and Collective Action in China
Legitimacy and Institutional Change
Research on the post‐communist world
Rooted transnational publics
In their own eyes
Ecologies of Social Movements
The Enduring Place of Hierarchy in World Politics
The long millennium, the short century, and the persistence of legitimation
Mass Persuasion as a Means of Legitimation and China's Popular Authoritarianism
Cuba in Transition? The Civil Sphere's Challenge to the Castro Regime
The state
The dynamics of modernization
Communist Neo-Traditionalism
The Development of the Modern State
Politics and Paradigms
Samizdat and an Independent Society in Central and Eastern Europe
Soviet Neotraditionalism
Politics and Paradigms
The Marxian Revolutionary Idea
Poland's Self-Limiting Revolution
The Other Europe
After Leninism
The Search for Paradigms as a Hindrance to Understanding
Consumers of Privilege
La Democrazia E Il Potere Invisibile
The Marxian Revolutionary Idea
Will More Countries Become Democratic
Political Science and the Crisis of Authoritarianism
| Unique citing works | 65 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,91 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2025 (34) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 65 |