Fairness Matters: Equity and the Transition to Democracy

World Policy Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 48-56

  Mason, David S ^a  

^a BUTLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 1542502714     PISSN: 07402775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/07402775-2004-1004     Document Type: Review

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1. The public opinion data in this article are drawn from a number of representative surveys, cited later in the text, that were conducted in the 1990s in Russia, Eastern Europe, and/or some of the former republics of the Soviet Union (the Baltic states, Belarus, Ukraine, Armenia, and Georgia). References to the "postcommunist states" are to these countries.
2. Branko Milanovic, Income, Inequality, and Poverty during the Transition from Planned to Market Economy (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1998).
3. Dmitri Glinski and Peter Reddaway, "The Ravages of 'Market Bolshevism,"' Journal of Democracy, vol. 10 (April 1999), pp. 19-34.
4. Vaclav Havel, Summer Meditations, trans. Paul Wilson (New York: Knopf, 1992), p. 3.
5. Janice Bell, The Political Economy of Reform in Post-Communist Poland (Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 2001), figure 2.5, p. 45. In 1992, 50 percent of Bulgarians polled said that life was "worse now than under communisim"; in 1999, 68 percent said it was worse. The percentages for the other five countries are: Czech Republic, 31 percent (1992), 49 percent (1999); Hungary, 68 percent (1992), 65 percent (1999); Poland, 54 percent (1993), 47 percent (1999); Romania, 33 percent (1992), 60 percent (1999); and Slovakia, 50 percent (1992), 69 percent (1999).
6. Richard Rose, "A Diverging Europe," Journal of Democracy, vol. 12 (January 2001), p. 96. Rose's conclusions are based on the "New Democracies Barometer" and "New Russia Barometer" surveys of the Paul Lazarsfeld Society, Vienna, and the Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Strath-clyde, Glasgow.
7. See Max Kaase, Kenneth Newton, and Elinor Scarbrough, "A Look at the Beliefs in Government Study," PS: Political Science and Politics, vol. 29 (June 1996), pp. 226-28; and James R. Kluegel, David S. Mason, and Bernd Wegener, eds., Social Justice and Political Change: Public Opinion in Capitalist and Post-Communist States (New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1995).
8. See Max Kaase, Kenneth Newton, and Elinor Scarbrough, "A Look at the Beliefs in Government Study," PS: Political Science and Politics, vol. 29 (June 1996), pp. 226-28; and James R. Kluegel, David S. Mason, and Bernd Wegener, eds., Social Justice and Political Change: Public Opinion in Capitalist and Post-Communist States (New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1995).
9. See David S. Mason and James R. Kluegel, Marketing Democracy: Changing Opinion about Inequality and Politics in East Central Europe (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000). The International Social Justice Project was an international collaborative research project on social justice attitudes. The first survey was conducted in 1991 in 13 countries in North America, Western Europe, Japan, Russia, and Eastern Europe. It was repeated in 1996 in Germany, Russia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, and Estonia. Details on the project are available at www.butler.edu/isjp.
10. See David S. Mason and James R. Kluegel, Marketing Democracy: Changing Opinion about Inequality and Politics in East Central Europe (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000). The International Social Justice Project was an international collaborative research project on social justice attitudes. The first survey was conducted in 1991 in 13 countries in North America, Western Europe, Japan, Russia, and Eastern Europe. It was repeated in 1996 in Germany, Russia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, and Estonia. Details on the project are available at www.butler.edu/isjp.
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20. Amartya Sen, "Democracy as a Universal Value," Journal of Democracy, vol. 10 (July 1999), pp. 3-17.
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22. Ivan Krastev, "The Balkans: Democracy Without Choices," Journal of Democracy, vol. 13 (July 2002), pp. 47-48.
23. Adam Przeworski, Sustainable Democracy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 86.
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