The Privileges of Past Communist Party Membership in Russia and Endogenous Switching Regression

Róna‐Tas, Ákos; Guseva, Alya

doi:10.1006/ssre.2001.0711

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“…Indeed, one of the main conclusions of five decades of social stratification and mobility research is that the fundamental determinants of life chances are resistant to change (Hout & DiPrete, 2006). Socialist institutions and individuals embedded in them are likely to have remained the source of postsocialist reproduction and stratification through structural and economic inertia (Rona-Tas & Guseva, 2001). The latter is particularly important as the available studies also suggest that a feedback mechanism exists between public attitudes in a country and its economic and political institutions (Alesina & Glaeser, 2004;Breznau, 2016;Linos & West, 2003).…”

Section: Socialist Legacy and Economic Developmentmentioning

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Intergenerational Social Mobility and Popular Explanations of Poverty: A Comparative Perspective

Gugushvili

2016

Soc Just Res

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This article explores the consequences of intergenerational social mobility on perceptions of popular explanations of poverty. It is hypothesised that those who experience improvements in socio-economic status through social mobility are more likely to blame poverty on individual characteristics such as laziness and lack of willpower and are less likely to attribute failure to injustice in society, and on the macro-level, the effect of social mobility on perceptions of popular explanations of poverty is moderated by contextual environment. The described hypotheses are tested by using multinomial and multilevel logistic regressions and two complementary datasets-European Values Studies and the Life in Transition Survey. The derived findings suggest that social mobility is indeed associated with perceptions of individual blame and social blame of why some people are in need. However, these effects are manifested primarily among subjectively mobile individuals and are also conditioned by the legacy of socialism and the level of economic development of countries where individuals reside.

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Section: Socialist Legacy and Economic Developmentmentioning

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Intergenerational Social Mobility and Popular Explanations of Poverty: A Comparative Perspective

Gugushvili

2016

Soc Just Res

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“…Conversely, another group of studies also explains the survival of the Communist legacy using descriptive analysis (Trang 1994). This literature is also linked to the studies of the role of Communist elite in the transformation of the Soviet nomenklatura into the modern Russian elite (Kryshtanovskaya and White 1996;Hughes 1997;Rivera 2000;Gaman-Golutvina 2008;Moses 2008) and to the investigations of how reforms affected the economic behavior of former CPSU members (Gerber 2000(Gerber , 2001Rona-Tas and Guseva 2001;Geishecker and Haisken-DeNew 2004).…”

Section: Russian Regions and The Federal Government's Anticorruption mentioning

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Understanding the survival of post-Communist corruption in contemporary Russia: the influence of historical legacies

Obydenkova

Libman

2014

Post-Soviet Affairs

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“… 4 See Róna-Tas (1994); Gerber (2001, 2000b); Gerber and Mayorova (2010); and Róna-Tas and Guseva (2001) for a debate over whether former CP members owe their advantages to CP-based network advantages vs. unobserved human capital. …”

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Inter-generational micro-class mobility during and after socialism: The power, education, autonomy, capital, and horizontal (PEACH) model in Hungary

Lippényi

Gerber

2016

Social Science Research

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We propose a theoretical model of how occupational mobility operates differently under socialism than under market regimes. Our model specifies four vertical dimensions of occupational resources—power, education, autonomy, and capital—plus a horizontal dimension consisting of linkages among occupations in the same economic branch. Given the nature of state socialist political-economic institutions, we expect power to exhibit much stronger effects in the socialist mobility regime, while autonomy and capital should play greater stratifying roles after the market transition. Education should have stable effects, and horizontal linkages should diminish in strength with market reforms. We estimate our model’s parameters using data from surveys conducted in Hungary during and after the socialist period. We adopt a micro-class approach, though we test it against approaches that use more aggregated class categories. Our model provides a superior fit to other mobility models, and our results confirm our hypotheses about the distinctive features of the state socialist mobility regime. Mobility researchers often look for common patterns characterizing mobility in all industrialized societies. Our findings suggest that national institutions can produce fundamentally distinct patterns of mobility.

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The Privileges of Past Communist Party Membership in Russia and Endogenous Switching Regression

Cited by 27 publications

References 10 publications

Intergenerational Social Mobility and Popular Explanations of Poverty: A Comparative Perspective

Intergenerational Social Mobility and Popular Explanations of Poverty: A Comparative Perspective

Understanding the survival of post-Communist corruption in contemporary Russia: the influence of historical legacies

Inter-generational micro-class mobility during and after socialism: The power, education, autonomy, capital, and horizontal (PEACH) model in Hungary

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