In search of a new model

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 105-112

  Rupnik, Jacques ^a,b  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies Department   (Belgium)

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EID: 77249172667     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (12)

1. This Hungarian poll is cited in Hospodaske Noviny (Prague), 29 June 2009.
2. This is now amply documented thanks to the opening of the archives. See also Michel Meyer, Histoire secrète de la chute du mur de Berlin (Paris: Odile Jacob, 2009).
3. Julia Bonstein, "Homesick for a Dictatorship: Majority of Eastern Germans Feel Life Better under Communism," 7 March 2009. Available at www.spiegel.de/internationall germany/0,1518,634122,00 .html.
4. Petr Pithart, Devetaosmdesaty [Nineteen eighty-nine] (Prague: Academia, 2009), 17-23 and 55.
5. In explaining the ruling, Constitutional Court judge Pavel Holländer cautioned that "the questioning of basic legal norms on political grounds is a challenge to democracy and creates a potential danger of authoritarianism and totalitarianism." He was quoted in Respekt, 14-20 September 2009.
6. To get a sense of where participation stands, consider that turnout for the May 2009 European Parliament elections ranged from just over 28 percent in the Czech Republic and Slovenia to as low as 19.6 percent in Slovakia.
7. According to a poll by the SANEP firm published in the Prague daily Pravo on 26 September 2009, only 4 percent of respondents said that they trusted parliament.
8. Jerzy Jedlicki, A Suburb of Europe: Nineteenth-Century Polish Approaches to Western Civilization (Budapest: Central European University Press, 1999).
9. On the ills of Western democracies, see Susan J. Pharr, Robert D. Putnam, and Russell J. Dalton, "Trouble in the Advanced Democracies: A Quarter-Century of Declining Confidence," Journal of Democracy 11 (April 2000): 5-25.
10. Peter S. Green and Andrea Dudikova, "Havel Laments as 'Consumer Palaces' Occupy Nation," Bloomberg News, 18 June 2009. Available at www.bloomberg.com/appsln
11. Anna Grzymala-Busse, Rebuilding Leviathan: Party Competition and State Exploitation in Post-Communist Democracies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
12. Milada Vachudova, Europe Undivided: Democracy, Leverage, and Integration After Communism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).