Elite Replacement and Civil Society
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11240/24:10496929
Result on the web
<a href="https://wuw.pl/data/include/cms//Elites_of_Post_Transformation_Kulas_Piotr_2024.pdf#page=429.00" target="_blank" >https://wuw.pl/data/include/cms//Elites_of_Post_Transformation_Kulas_Piotr_2024.pdf#page=429.00</a>
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Elite Replacement and Civil Society
Original language description
The season of victorious authoritarian populist leaders has also brought into the replacement of old elites by new ones the question of the role of civil society in this process. This question is particularly urgent in the post-communist countries of Central Europe, where civil society played a significant role in replacing the populist communist elites of more than 30 years ago. The new wave of populism in these countries is associated in the academic literature with the process of democratic backsliding and with expectations that civil society, together with democratic political parties, will counter this process of replacing democratic elites with authoritarian ones. Against the backdrop of Gramsci's concept of competing (counter)hegemonic historical blocs, this chapter seeks to show that the alliance between elites and civil society is an important factor in the process of elite replacement and that the replacement of elites in post-communist countries is not only an "elite game" but also depends on the ability of civil society organizations to mobilize the general public in support of one part of the elites. It also demonstrates the involve ment of civil society organizations in building illiberal, conservative alliances and replacing liberal democratic elites with populist ones, using examples of elite replacement in the four Central European countries. 63 KEYWORDS: elite, civil society, alliance, elite replacement.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Elites of Post-Transformation: The Cases of Central and Eastern European Countries
ISBN
978-83-235-6388-4
Number of pages of the result
34
Pages from-to
63-96
Number of pages of the book
438
Publisher name
„Artes Liberales” Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Place of publication
Varšava
UT code for WoS chapter
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