Communism's Shadow
：Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes
( Princeton Studies in Political Behavior )
Publication subTitle ：Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes
Publication series ：Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
Author： Pop-Eleches Grigore;Tucker Joshua A.
Publisher： Princeton University Press
Publication year： 2017
E-ISBN: 9781400887828
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691175591
Subject： D0 Political Theory;D09 in the history of politics, political history;D73/77 National Politics
Keyword： 政治学史、政治思想史,政治理论,各国政治
Language： ENG
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Description
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.
A thorough and nuanced examination of communist legacies' lasting influence on public opinion, Communism's Shadow highlights the ways in
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