Scientific publication performance in post-communist countries: still lagging far behind
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2389-8
Abstract: We present a bibliometric comparison of publication performance in 226 scientific disciplines in the Web of Science (WoS) for six post-communist EU member states relative to six EU-15 countries of a comparable size. We compare… read more here.
Keywords: publication; communist countries; post communist; publication performance ... See more keywords
The Genesis of Rebellion: Governance, Grievance, and Mutiny in the Age of Sail. By Steven Pfaff and Michael Hechter. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 352p. $39.99 cloth.
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DOI: 10.1017/s1537592723000609
Abstract: discussed the role of families as transmission mechanisms for pre-communist education and ideas, Lankina shows that families were also crucial in shaping the demand for education, thereby facilitating the reproduction of precommunist elites. Furthermore, the… read more here.
Keywords: communist elites; democracy; education; post communist ... See more keywords
How is the European integration debate changing in post-communist states ?
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DOI: 10.1057/s41304-020-00267-w
Abstract: To many citizens in post-communist states European Union (EU) membership represented a historical–civilisational choice: an end to the Cold War division of Europe and symbolic reuniting of Eastern Europe with a ‘West’ that they had… read more here.
Keywords: communist states; integration debate; post communist; european integration ... See more keywords
Female Leadership, Democratization, and Firm Innovation: Social Inequalities and Gender Issues in Post-Communist Economies
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DOI: 10.1080/00128775.2021.2024440
Abstract: ABSTRACT Do women exhibit a different pattern of entrepreneurial behavior as compared to men in post-Communist societies? This paper addresses this question using survey data from 25 Eastern Europe and Central Asian states. The sample… read more here.
Keywords: leadership democratization; female leadership; innovation; firm innovation ... See more keywords
Transitional Politics of Memory: Political Strategies of Managing the Past in Post-communist Romania
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2017.1380783
Abstract: Abstract The article develops a typology of political strategies of coming to terms with the past as a theoretical frame of reference against which it assesses the transitional politics of memory pursued in Romanian post-communist… read more here.
Keywords: memory political; political strategies; transitional politics; post communist ... See more keywords
Urban Narratives on the Changing Nature of Social Capital in Post-Communist Romania
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2020.1718064
Abstract: Abstract Drawing on 69 interviews and information from the World Values Surveys, we examine discursive understandings of social capital in Romania. We evidence two dominant explanatory metanarratives on the weakness of social capital (‘communism’ and… read more here.
Keywords: capital; romania; urban narratives; social capital ... See more keywords
Are post-communist interest organizations learning to lobby? Exploring the “coming-of-age” of Central and Eastern European interest groups
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DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2022.2046558
Abstract: ABSTRACT Countless scholars have explored the emergence, stability and transformation of interest intermediation structures in western democracies and beyond [Jahn, “Changing of the Guard”; Schmitter, “Corporatism is Dead!”; Siaroff, “Corporatism in 24 Industrial Democracies”.]. In… read more here.
Keywords: organized interests; eastern european; post communist; central eastern ... See more keywords
The politics of mourning in post-communist Romania: unravelling the thanatopolitics of grievable deaths
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DOI: 10.1080/13576275.2019.1682983
Abstract: ABSTRACT National days of mourning are state-sponsored rituals of collective grief enacted in the public sphere by political authorities to symbolically mark and emotionally cope with a socially significant loss. These officially declared and ceremonially… read more here.
Keywords: mourning post; post communist; communist romania; post ... See more keywords
Democratization and Firm Innovation: Evidence from European and Central Asian post-Communist States
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DOI: 10.1080/14631377.2020.1745565
Abstract: ABSTRACT The paper analyses the impact of democratisation on firm innovation in European and Central Asian post-communist states using panel-data and cross-sectional approaches. The sample consists of over 25,000 establishments in 25 transition economies. Our… read more here.
Keywords: post communist; european central; firm innovation;
Puppets of the president? Prime ministers in post-communist Romania
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DOI: 10.1080/21599165.2021.1873779
Abstract: ABSTRACT With sixteen Prime Ministers (PMs) in thirty years, Romania seems to fit well in the Central and Eastern European pattern of countries with “weak” heads of party governments. This article aims at contributing to… read more here.
Keywords: president prime; ministers post; communist romania; prime ministers ... See more keywords
When the ethnic cleavage overshadows the class cleavage in a post-communist country and why we should care?
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DOI: 10.1080/23745118.2020.1858397
Abstract: ABSTRACT There is a theoretical assumption that post-communist cofmanifesuntries would follow the Lipset and Rokkan’s seminal model regarding electoral cleavages and thus class cleavage would become dominant in those countries as in the West. In… read more here.
Keywords: cleavage; class cleavage; class; ethnic cleavage ... See more keywords