Communism's many legacies in East-Central Europe

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 156-170

  Seleny, Anna ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34547820856     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.2007.0056     Document Type: Review

References (12)

1. Michael Minkenberg, "The Radical Right in Postsocialist Central and Eastern Europe: Comparative Observations and Interpretations," East European Politics and Societies 16 (May 2002): 353-55, 357-60.
2. Anna Seleny, "Old Political Rationalities and New Democracies: Compromise and Confrontation in Hungary and Poland," World Politics 51 (July 1999): 484-519.
3. See also Maximilian Spinner, "Compulsory Consensus? The Sources of Elite Political Culture and the Consolidation of Central and East European Democracies," unpubl. diss., Central European University, 2006, 129.
4. The exact phrase used by the 1956 radio announcer comes from Matthew Higinson, "A Good Lie Badly Told and the Likely Consequences," Budapest Business Journal, 2 October 2006.
5. "Poland's Crumbling Government," Economist, 25 September 2006.
6. Serious problems remain. The UN recently singled out Slovakia as the country with the highest rate of unemployment for Roma in East Central Europe, and where social exclusion is most acute.
7. The European People's Party Newsletter, 26 July 2006, at www.epp.eu/ showmail.php?mailingID=68&languageID=1#136.
8. Ivan Krastev, "Between Elite and People: Europe's Black Hole," at www.opendemocracy.net/xml/xhtml/articles/3796.html.
9. F. Stephen Larrabee, "Danger and Opportunity in Eastern Europe," Foreign Affairs 85 (November-December 2006): 117-33;
10. and Krastev, "Between Elite and People."
11. Janusz Bugajski, "Populist Piffle," Wall Street Journal Online, 8 November 2006.
12. Cas Mudde, "The War of Words: Defining the Extreme Right Party Family," West European Politics 19 (April 1996): 225-48.