Political leadership – the key for explaining post-communist diversity

Mitropolitski, Simeon

doi:10.1080/00085006.2015.1129104

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“…In the latter case, the effects should be mitigated once transformation becomes more complete (institutional effect). There should also be considerable variance between countries that have passed through different stages of transformation (see Mitropolitski 2016). The results of existing surveys point to a mixed picture: institutional performance explains most of the post-communist variables, such as low trust in political institutions (Hooghe and Quintelier 2014;Pjesivac 2017), but there are studies that show residuals that cannot be "explained away," such as confidence in political parties and civil society engagement (Bernhard and Karakoç 2007;Tucker 2011, 2013;Svenonius and Björklund 2018).…”

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Editorial: Surveillance from a Post-Communist Perspective

Svenonius¹,

Björklund²

2018

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This special issue is the result of a research initiative that began in 2013, just before the annexation of Crimea by Russia. We, the guest editors, together with Paweł Waszkiewicz at the University in Warsaw, wanted to fill a gap in research on surveillance, which had at that time not yet addressed post-communist societies to any great extent. Today the situation is slightly different, but the need for further research is still pressing. It is therefore with great pleasure that we present a collection of five research articles by both senior and early-stage researchers, as well as a postscript by Professor Emeritus Maria Łoś, who is one of the few researchers who has written extensively on surveillance-related issues from a post-communist perspective. Below we introduce the special issue with a conceptual overview of post-communist research and its connections to surveillance studies.

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