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Explaining post-communist founding elections results through initial state capacity
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Abstract While a consensus is emerging about the importance of state building and state capacity for democratization in both post-communist and developing countries, comparatively few explicit attempts have been made to provide empirical support for the relationship between the two concepts. Even more proble... mehr
While a consensus is emerging about the importance of state building and state capacity for democratization in both post-communist and developing countries, comparatively few explicit attempts have been made to provide empirical support for the relationship between the two concepts. Even more problematic is to find an explicit causal mechanism linking high state capacity with democracy. State capacity can be understood as the capability of the state to penetrate society, regulate social relations, extract resources, and appropriate or use resources in determined ways. In other words, strong states have high capabilities to complete these tasks, while weak states struggle to compete with private actors over extraction and appropriation of resources. But what makes strong states more likely to be democratic and, in turn, weak states less likely to be democratic? This article explores whether or not state capacity correlates with the outcomes of founding elections, that is, the first open elections in post-communist countries. In other words, do voters in states with higher initial capacity also tend to “throw the communist rascals out” in the founding elections? (author's abstract)... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Demokratie; Demokratisierung; Transformation; Osteuropa; öffentliches Gut; Staatsfunktion; Rechtsstaat; Bürgerrecht; Wahl; Wahlverhalten; Wahlergebnis; postsozialistisches Land; politische Institution; Staatlichkeit; Staatstätigkeit; Zivilgesellschaft; statistische Methode
Klassifikation
Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2012
Seitenangabe
S. 724-742
Zeitschriftentitel
East European politics and societies and cultures : EEPS, 26 (2012) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325412452590
ISSN
0888-3254
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Deposit Licence - Keine Weiterverbreitung, keine Bearbeitung
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