Adjectives of democracy : citizenship and political attitudes under socialist and liberal democracy in the Czech Republic   

• Product Details

  Product #

  2153746B

  Author(s)

  Lyons, Pat

  City

  Прага 

  Country

  Czech Republic 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9788074191442 

  Date of Publication

  2014 

  Publisher

  Slon – Sociologicky ustav Akademie ved CR  

  Cover Type

  Soft cover 

  Pages

  471 

  Subject

  History, 20th-21st Centuries

  Subject

  Politics

  Subject

  Sociology

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Lyons, Pat

  Publisher

  Slon – Sociologický ústav Akademie věd ČR  

• Description

  The central empirical puzzle addressed in this book is why are Czech citizens’ attitudes towards key facets of democracy so similar under socialist democracy in 1968 and liberal democracy in 2008? Examining unique survey datasets from the late 1960s and 2008 this book reveals that Czech and Slovak citizens’ political attitudes can justifiably be characterised in terms of stability. This stability may be understood as a general feature of citizens’ relationship with democratic values and their implementation in regimes that adopt competing adjectives