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The weakness of postcommunist civil society reassessed by FOA, ROBERTO STEFAN, EKIERT, GRZEGORZ

“…During the last two decades, scholars from a variety of disciplines have argued that civil society is structurally deficient in postcommunist countries. Yet…”
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MYTHS AND REALITIES OF CIVIL SOCIETY by Ekiert, Grzegorz, Kubik, Jan

“…[...]Poland's powerful Roman Catholic Church secured considerable autonomy and supported various movements and organizations. [...]by the mid-1980s, Poland had…”
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Three Generations of Research on Post Communist Politics—A Sketch by Ekiert, Grzegorz

“…This essay outlines theoretical visions or paradigms that have underpinned empirical and historical work on the great transformation in Central and Eastern…”
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Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe One Hundred Years On by Ekiert, Grzegorz, Ziblatt, Daniel

“…In the twenty years since communism’s collapse, scholars of postcommmunist Central and Eastern Europe have increasingly converged on the insight that long-run…”
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Civil Society and Three Dimensions of Inequality in Post-1989 Poland by Ekiert, Grzegorz, Kubik, Jan, Wenzel, Michal

“…This article presents three novel arguments regarding the role of civil society in the democratic transformation of Poland. First, under communism,…”
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The Legacies of 1989: Myths and Realities of Civil Society by Ekiert, Grzegorz, Kubik, Jan

“…The reconstitution of civil society in the postcommunist world is misunderstood. Commonly diagnosed as weak and ineffective, really existing civil societies…”
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Civil Society and Three Dimensions of Inequality in Post-1989 Poland by Ekiert, Grzegorz, Kubik, Jan, Wenzel, Michal

“…This article presents three novel arguments regarding the role of civil society in the democratic transformation of Poland. First, under communism,…”
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Democracy in the Post-Communist World: An Unending Quest? by Ekiert, Grzegorz, Kubik, Jan, Vachudova, Milada Anna

“…Fifteen years after regime change swept across the former Soviet bloc and contrary to the widely held hopes and expectations at that time, liberal democracy…”
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The end of communism in Central and Eastern Europe: The last middle-class revolution? by Ekiert, Grzegorz

“…This chapter offers a few stylized observations about the middle class and its role in the fall of communist regimes in East Central Europe. I claim that…”
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Contentious Politics in New Democracies: East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, 1989–93 by Ekiert, Grzegorz, Kubik, Jan

“…The article reconstructs and explains the patterns of collective protest in four Central European countries: former East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia…”
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Democratization Processes in East Central Europe: A Theoretical Reconsideration by Ekiert, Grzegorz

“…This article explores various dimensions of the issue of transition to democracy in East Central Europe, focusing on the question of how past experiences shape…”
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Academic boundaries and path dependencies facing the EU's eastward enlargement by Ekiert, Grzegorz, Zielonka, Jan

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Postcommunist Democracy: Legacies and Outcomes by Kopstein, Jeffrey

“…Recent studies of postcommunist democracy illustrate how the states of East-Central Europe have overcome Leninist social, economic, and political legacies with…”
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Introduction: Academic Boundaries and Path Dependencies Facing the EU's Eastward Enlargement by Ekiert, Grzegorz, Zielonka, Jan

“…Introduces this special journal issue on the future eastward expansion of the European Union (EU), noting the "political urgency & intellectual challenge"…”
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Ten Years After: An Optimistic View by Ekiert, Grzegorz

“…The spectacular collapse of state socialism in Eastern Europe in 1989, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, were greeted by social scientists and…”
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Democratic Processes in East Central Europe: A Theoretical Reconsideration by Ekiert, Grzegorz

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Democracy in the post-communist world by Ekiert, Grzegorz, Kubik, Jan, Vachudova, Milada Anna, Rose-Ackerman, Susan, Way, Lucan A, Levitsky, Steven, Hanson, Stephen E, Coricelli, Fabrizio, Grzymala-Busse, Anna, Kaufman, Robert R, Schimmelfennig, Frank, Pop-Eleches, Grigore, Zielonka, Jan

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The Return of the German Minority to Poland by Ekiert, Grzegorz

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Contentious Politics in New Democracies: East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, 1989-1993 by Ekiert, Grzegorz, Kubik, Jan

“…THE AUTHORS RECONSTRUCT AND EXPLAIN THE PATTERNS OF COLLECTIVE PROTEST IN FOUR CENTRAL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES -- EAST GERMANY, HUNGARY, POLAND, AND SLOVAKIA --…”
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The state against society: The aftermath of political crises in Hungary, 1956-1963, Czechoslovakia, 1968-1976, and Poland, 1981-1989 by Ekiert, Grzegorz

“…During the post-World War II period several state-socialist regimes of East Central Europe experienced major political crises threatening their domestic…”
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