Semi-Civil Society : A Missing Link in Explaining the Transformation of Communist Dictatorships?

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17448689.2021.1943855" target="_blank" >10.1080/17448689.2021.1943855</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Semi-Civil Society : A Missing Link in Explaining the Transformation of Communist Dictatorships?

Original language description

Much has been written about civil society’s role in transforming communist regimes; however, scholars have largely ignored the officially sanctioned organizations. Yet, when political openings arise, official organizations evolve into ‘semi-civil society and play an important role in bringing down communist-led regimes. When a reformist regime begins opening up, semi-civil society turns to the regime and pressures it to reach make fartherreaching reforms, which can lead to a negotiated transition. When the regime is less open, semi-civil society turns to the opposition, which can help bring about an uprising. Semi-civil society by itself cannot bring down a regime or make it more pluralist, but it provides a missing link that has been absent from previous analyses of the collapse of communist regimes. This article applies these insights to a reformist Asian communistruled country: Vietnam (with reference to China). In such communist-ruled countries, semi-civil society is already making society more pluralist and we can it expect it to be a driving force for the further pluralization of society and possibly even its democratization. If these countries eventually democratize, semicivil society will help them follow the Hungarian path to negotiated transitions rather than the Czechoslovak path to change through an uprising.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Civil Society

ISSN

1744-8689

e-ISSN

1744-8697

Volume of the periodical

17

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

199-218

UT code for WoS article

000691655600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85113462538