Communism's shadow : historical legacies and contemporary political attitudes /

Communism's shadow : historical legacies and contemporary political attitudes /

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Author / Creator:	Pop-Eleches, Grigore, author.
Imprint:	Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017] ©2017 �2017
Description:	xiii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Princeton studies in political behavior Princeton studies in political behavior.
Subject:	Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern. Post-communism. Europe, Eastern.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11620058

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Other authors / contributors:	Tucker, Joshua A. (Joshua Aaron), 1971- author.
ISBN:	9780691175584 0691175586 9780691175591 0691175594
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-331) and index.
Summary:	It has long been assumed that the historical legacy of Soviet Communism would have an important effect on post-communist states. However, prior research has focused primarily on the institutional legacy of communism. "Communism's Shadow" instead turns the focus to the individuals who inhabit post-communist countries, presenting a rigorous assessment of the legacy of communism on political attitudes. Post-communist citizens hold political, economic, and social opinions that consistently differ from individuals in other countries. Grigore Pop-Eleches and Joshua Tucker introduce two distinct frameworks to explain these differences, the first of which focuses on the effects of living in a post-communist country, and the second on living through communism. Drawing on large-scale research encompassing post-communist states and other countries around the globe, the authors demonstrate that living through communism has a clear, consistent influence on why citizens in post-communist countries are, on average, less supportive of democracy and markets and more supportive of state-provided social welfare. The longer citizens have lived through communism, especially as adults, the greater their support for beliefs associated with communist ideology--the one exception being opinions regarding gender equality.

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