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%T Theoretical Perspectives on Central Europe %A Surazska, Wieslawa %J Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review %N 1 %P 3-17 %V 4 %D 1996 %K Postcommunist Societies %= 2009-03-10T16:27:00Z %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-54018 %X Various theoretical perspectives on political developments in postcommunist Central Europe are considered. The paradigms of modernization & democratic theories are found insufficient to explain such phenomena as the renewal of ethnoregional identities typical of the region & sometimes lead to irredentism & secession. It is argued that these phenomena can be better understood in the context of Stein Rokkan's (1975) conceptions of state- & nation-building. Rokkan's theory on the critical junctures in history is tested on the return of the 1991 Polish parliamentary elections. A map of the turnout in these elections is presented, showing the lines of the Third Partition (1795-1919) in contemporary electoral behavior. Other examples of the reintegration of historic regions are presented, & the consequences of this development discussed. %C MISC %G en %9 journal article %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info