The Velvet Revolution and the Centre/Periphery Model: The Case of South Bohemia

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Result on the web

<a href="http://www.politickevedy.fpvmv.umb.sk/en/archive/2018/4-2018/marian-sekerak.html" target="_blank" >http://www.politickevedy.fpvmv.umb.sk/en/archive/2018/4-2018/marian-sekerak.html</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24040/politickevedy.2018.21.4.8-29" target="_blank" >10.24040/politickevedy.2018.21.4.8-29</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Velvet Revolution and the Centre/Periphery Model: The Case of South Bohemia

Original language description

Studying local history is an important tool for understanding historical processes at national level. This paper focuses on the events related to Czechoslovak Velvet Revolution, with special emphasis on its regional actors the territory of today’s Czech Republic. Due to studying archive sources and secondary literature the paper examines the measure, motivation and circumstances of peoples’ political engagement around 17th November 1989 in the South Bohemian Region. The paper is set within context of Lipset and Rokkan’s centre/periphery model and explains the course, speed, dynamics, and intensity of revolutionary events. It concludes that the South Bohemian economic infrastructure was not a hindrance of spilling-over the revolutionary processes and building of local Civic Forum branches. Even the transfer of power among old and new elites was relatively smooth. The cultural or political differences did not turn out to be so significant in comparison with the Prague centre. In this way, the mosaic of political transformation’s development and democratic transition in Central Europe is complemented by its small but not insignificant component.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50600 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Political Science

ISSN

1335-2741

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

21

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

8-29

UT code for WoS article

000453459900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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