Political leadership – the key for explaining post-communist diversity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9640995 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simeon Mitropolitski (University of Ottawa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-67 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Slavonic Papers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-5006 • E-ISSN: 2375-2475 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00085006.2015.1129104 |
| OpenAlex | W2307332089 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 50 |
This article focuses on the evaluation of recent research on post-communist political regime diversity in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. It offers a snapshot of the literature which looks for explanations for this diversity in four sets of factors: pre-communist and communist legacies, transitional institutional choices, political leadership, and foreign influence. The findings are based on the political evolution of three countries: Slovakia, Belarus, and Macedonia. They are representative for all post-communist countries both in terms of regime trajectory and regional location. The author concludes that post-communist political regime diversity can best be explained when the political leadership in general and the top politicians’ ideology, in particular, are placed at the centre of the analysis. This explanation correlates well with all types of post-communist regime, whether democracy, dictatorship, or intermediate regime. The other factors – legacies, institutional choices, and foreign influence – at best, may act only as reinforcing variables in some cases
Authoritarianism · Communism · Communist state · Democracy · Dictatorship · Diversity (politics · Economic system · Economics · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European Politics and Security · Law · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
Europe Undivided
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Designing Democracy
Democracy after Communism
Preying on the State
The Democratic Transition of Post-Communist Europe
Post-Communist Party Systems
Comprendre la diversité des régimes politiques au sein des pays postcommunistes
Ties That Bind? Leverage, Linkage, and Democratization in the Post-Cold War World
Structural factors vs. regime change
Civil society, youth and societal mobilization in democratic revolutions
Incomplete state building – incomplete democracy? How to interpret internal political development in the post-Soviet de facto states. Conclusion
Revisiting Russian and Polish elite value orientations
Associated with the Past
The Cultural Roots of Estonia's Successful Transition
Democracy in the Post-Communist World
EU Accession of Central and Eastern European Countries
The EU Accession and Strengthening of Institutions in East Central Europe
Great Expectations
Between Historical Legacies and the Promise of Western Integration
The future of liberal revolution
Politics in Eastern Europe
Formal Constitutions in Informal Politics
Diversity, Conflict and Democracy
Is Democracy Promotion Effective in Moldova? The Impact of European Institutions on Development of Civil and Political Rights in Moldova
Membership in voluntary organizations and democratic performance
Varieties of Post-Soviet Authoritarian Regimes
Theft of a Nation. Romania since Communism
Authoritarian Determinants of Democratic Party Competition
The Perils of Presidentialism
The Legacies of 1989
International Linkage and Democratization
Favorable Conditions and Electoral Revolutions
Modernization, ethnic fractionalization, and democracy
Linkages and the promotion of democracy
The Leninist Legacy and Institutional Change
A Politics of Institutional Choice
The role of geography and history in determining the slower progress of post-communist transition in the Balkans
Explaining the success and failure of post-communist revolutions
Democracy or autocracy on the march? The colored revolutions as normal dynamics of patronal presidentialism
Historical legacies and the size of the red-brown vote in post-communist politics
Diasporas and democratization in the post-communist world
Survival of the fittest
The problematic role of EU democracy promotion in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh
Rose, Orange, and Tulip
The dynamics of autocratic coercion after the Cold War
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |