Totalitarian public consciousness in a post-totalitarian society

Vainshtein, G.

doi:10.1016/0967-067x(94)90013-2

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“…Compared to their Western counterparts, they also tend to have higher risk aversion in pursuing financial gain, higher risk-seeking in incurring financial loss (Schaewitz et al, 2022), show less willingness to share gains with others who loosed (Brosig-Koch et al, 2011), and are inclined to see others as noncooperative (Heineck & Süssmuth, 2013). They also prefer the satisfaction of economic interests at the expense of moral interests (Welsch, 2022; see also van Hoorn & Maseland, 2010), show less civic participation (Pop-Eleches & Tucker, 2012), are more antidemocratic and anticapitalistic (Pop-Eleches & Tucker, 2014), and show higher nondemocratic skepticism and passive indifference (Klicperová-Baker & Košťál, 2015, 2018; Vainshtein, 1994). Their experience of communist authoritarianism seems to have taught many to distrust, disobey, and become alienated from the government.…”

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Perceived legitimacy of antipandemic measures: Findings from west and East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia at the peak of the COVID-19 crisis.

Lacko,

Horák,

Klicperová-Baker

et al. 2023

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

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This interdisciplinary study examines the cross-cultural differences between the perceived legitimacy of antipandemic measures during the peak of the COVID-19 crisis in three Central European countries and four independent samples (West Germany, East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia). A total of 2,752 participants completed a newly developed seven-item scale that inquired whether governmental regulations were perceived as fair, justified, and based on science and whether the government considered citizens’ needs and the interests of their country, etc. The analysis was done within the structural equation modeling framework. Scalar measurement invariance was successfully established between the studied countries, and a subsequent latent means comparison supported the hypothesis that German respondents would report higher legitimacy of the governmental antipandemic regulations than respondents from the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Additionally, as expected, the participants from the new German Länder (former East Germany) also manifested a consistent tendency to view governmental regulations as less legitimate than their Western fellow citizens. The results are discussed in terms of normative factors (i.e., the qualities of the authority which adopted the antipandemic measures, the qualities of the procedure through which these measures were adopted, and the qualities of the measures themselves), psycho-socio-cultural factors (e.g., postcommunist syndrome), and the influence of demographic variables.

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Perceived legitimacy of antipandemic measures: Findings from west and East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia at the peak of the COVID-19 crisis.

Lacko,

Horák,

Klicperová-Baker

et al. 2023

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

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The authoritarian idea in the public conscious and political life of contemporary Russia

Vainshtein

1995

Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics

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Religiosity and Tolerance in the United States and Poland

Karpov

2002

Scientific Study of Religion

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Survey research shows important links between religion and tolerance in the United States. Yet it is not known to what extent its findings have broader, cross‐national relevance. This article compares religious influences on political tolerance in the United States and Poland. Despite the marked political and cultural differences between their national contexts, data from the NORC GSS and Polish GSS reveal similar patterns of religious influences. Both in the United States and Poland, intolerance appears to be linked primarily to theocratic beliefs, that is, to a political correlate of religiosity rather than to its essential components, such as religious commitment and participation that have weak direct effects only on tolerance of atheists, and weak indirect effects on other dimensions of tolerance.

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Totalitarian public consciousness in a post-totalitarian society

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

Perceived legitimacy of antipandemic measures: Findings from west and East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia at the peak of the COVID-19 crisis.

Perceived legitimacy of antipandemic measures: Findings from west and East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia at the peak of the COVID-19 crisis.

The authoritarian idea in the public conscious and political life of contemporary Russia

Religiosity and Tolerance in the United States and Poland

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