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Elite and mass confidence in new democracies - towards congruence? The baltic states 1992-2007
Eliten- und Bevölkerungsvertrauen in neuen Demokratien - auf dem Weg zur Konvergenz? Die baltischen Staaten 1992-2007
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Abstract "Confidence in political and social institutions is of basic importance for democratic rule. The topic here is the patterns of elite and mass confidence in parliament, police, private business, and the church, in three Baltic States following the collapse of communism. The main finding is that elite... mehr
"Confidence in political and social institutions is of basic importance for democratic rule. The topic here is the patterns of elite and mass confidence in parliament, police, private business, and the church, in three Baltic States following the collapse of communism. The main finding is that elite's confidence in new institutions is considerably more affirmative than among the mass public, indicating their leading role in the consolidation process. I argue that this finding is more in line with the theory of democratic elitism than liberal democratic theory and underscore the vital role of elites in the process of democratic consolidation. However, gaps and trends over time vary between the countries, which also accentuate the importance of national contexts as explanations." (author's abstract)... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Baltikum; Elite; Eliteforschung; politische Elite; Demokratisierung; Vertrauen; Bevölkerung; politische Institution; soziale Institution; Polizei; Wirtschaft; Parlament; Kirche; postkommunistische Gesellschaft; Transformation; Konsolidierung; Theorie; Lettland; Litauen; Estland; vergleichende Politikwissenschaft; UdSSR-Nachfolgestaat; postsozialistisches Land
Klassifikation
allgemeine Geschichte
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Methode
empirisch; empirisch-quantitativ; historisch
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2012
Seitenangabe
S. 127-147
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 37 (2012) 1
Heftthema
Elite foundations of social theory and politics / Elitetheoretische Grundlagen sozialwissenschaftlicher Theoriebildung und politischer Analyse
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.37.2012.1.127-147
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)