TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pop-Eleches,Grigore
AU  - Tucker,Joshua
TI  - Communism's Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes 
T2  - Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
SN  - 9780691175584
AV  - JN96.A58 
U1  - 320.947 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Post-communism
KW  - Europe, Eastern
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Leninist regimes
KW  - Soviet Communism
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Soviet communism
KW  - adult communist exposure
KW  - aggregate-level data
KW  - analyses
KW  - anti-democratic attitudes
KW  - attitudinal change
KW  - attitudinal convergence
KW  - attitudinal differences
KW  - childhood communist exposure
KW  - communism
KW  - communist education
KW  - communist ideology
KW  - communist legacies
KW  - communist message
KW  - communist regime
KW  - communist regimes
KW  - communist rhetoric
KW  - communist socialization effects
KW  - communist socialization project
KW  - democracy
KW  - democratic deficit
KW  - democratic support
KW  - democratic values
KW  - developmental differences
KW  - economic performance
KW  - economic principles
KW  - exposure
KW  - fleeting legacies
KW  - gender equality
KW  - generational replacement
KW  - institutional regime
KW  - intensity
KW  - legacy effects
KW  - market economics
KW  - markets
KW  - methodological approach
KW  - methodology
KW  - political beliefs
KW  - political performance
KW  - post-communist citizens
KW  - post-communist countries
KW  - post-communist politics
KW  - post-communist states
KW  - pro-gender equality
KW  - resistance
KW  - social welfare
KW  - state responsibility
KW  - survey data
KW  - temporal resilience
KW  - temporary divergence
KW  - welfare state
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Country Code Abbreviations Used in Figures 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, and 7.1 --; Chapter 1. Communism's Shadow --; Chapter 2. Living through Communism --; Chapter 3. Methods and Data --; Chapter 4. Democracy --; Chapter 5. Markets --; Chapter 6. Social Welfare --; Chapter 7. Gender Equality --; Chapter 8. Temporal Resilience and Change --; Chapter 9. Legacies and Communism --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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 which political beliefs can outlast institutional regimes
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400887828?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400887828
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