Support for market economy principles in European post-communist countries during 1999-2008
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F19%3A00107281" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/19:00107281 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://sreview.soc.cas.cz/cs/issue/201-sociologicky-casopis-czech-sociological-review-3-2019/3913" target="_blank" >http://sreview.soc.cas.cz/cs/issue/201-sociologicky-casopis-czech-sociological-review-3-2019/3913</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/00380288.2019.55.3.469" target="_blank" >10.13060/00380288.2019.55.3.469</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Support for market economy principles in European post-communist countries during 1999-2008
Original language description
Since the fall of the communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe in 1989, neoliberal discourse has dominated among the political elite in the post-communist countries, paving the way for unprecedented mass privatisation, economic deregulation, and other market reforms. In this paper, we study the development of public support for market economy principles in post-communist countries compared to other European countries during the 1999-2008 period, which is the period that directly followed the initial stage of market transformation. We use data from the European Value Survey covering 22 European countries for the years 1999/2000 and 2008/2009. In addition to analysing the trends, we apply multilevel regression models to study the determinants and levels of support for the market economy in post-communist and other European countries. We find that, when controlling for individual and country-level variables, a significant increase in support for market economy principles has taken place in the post-communist cluster, which is not the case in the other countries. There is some inconsistency in support for the individual principles of market economics: support exists in post-communist countries for the notion that the state should be responsible for the social and economic well-being of its inhabitants and for state regulation of the economy, while support is high for some market economy principles, such as free competition and private ownership. In other words, support for some kind of social market seems to dominate the views of those living in post-communist countries, in which the state should combine a market economy with relatively generous social policies.
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
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA15-21263S" target="_blank" >GA15-21263S: Welfare Attitudes in Post-Crisis Europe</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Sociologický časopis
ISSN
0038-0288
e-ISSN
2336-128X
Volume of the periodical
55
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
27
Pages from-to
319-345
UT code for WoS article
000481649900002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85072324086