How Stable and Reasonable is Postcommunist Public Opinion? The Case of the Czech Republic.
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F14%3A00094500" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/14:00094500 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09668136.2014.900973#.U_NPqPldX9U" target="_blank" >http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09668136.2014.900973#.U_NPqPldX9U</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2014.900973" target="_blank" >10.1080/09668136.2014.900973</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
How Stable and Reasonable is Postcommunist Public Opinion? The Case of the Czech Republic.
Original language description
The quality of democracy depends on both politicians and citizens. While most attention has focused on politicians, this paper looks lat citizens. There has been some scepticism about whether the postcommunist public is prepared to rule their countries. The legacies of communism and the rigours of the transition may have produced citizens whose opinions are unstable and ill-informed and therefore a poor basis for democratic policy making. This paper tests this proposition by considering the nature of public opinion in the Czech Republic. Its main conclusion is that postcommunist public opinion is more reasonable than conventional wisdom suggests. Opinions on most policies change slowly if at all and when they do change the changes are prompted more by gradual shifts in mores than by political manipulation. This suggests that citizens in the region are prepared to have a significant voice in policy making.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GAP408%2F11%2F0709" target="_blank" >GAP408/11/0709: Contemporary challenges of democracy in East Central Europe</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Europe-Asia Studies
ISSN
0966-8136
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
66
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
925-944
UT code for WoS article
000340188700004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84904608999