Satisfied, Sceptical or Simply Indifferent? Current Public Opinion toward the Fall of Communism in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2011.611655" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2011.611655</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2011.611655" target="_blank" >10.1080/09668136.2011.611655</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Satisfied, Sceptical or Simply Indifferent? Current Public Opinion toward the Fall of Communism in the Czech Republic

Original language description

This paper explores contemporary public opinion in the Czech Republic toward the Velvet Revolution of 1989 using a national survey undertaken in May 2008. The central question addressed in this paper is how Czech citizens two decades after the Velvet Revolution perceive this key historical event? In order to answer this question public opinion toward the Velvet Revolution is examined in terms of (1) goals: reform or revolution, (2) leadership: dissident elites or a mass movement, and (3) reasons: political or economic change. The evidence presented in this paper reveals that the Czech public sees the Velvet Revolution as being a bloodless overthrow of the previous political regime where the primary goal was political rather than economic change. However, the relative importance of the leadership role played by counter-elite dissidents vis-?-vis the actions of ordinary citizens divides Czech public opinion.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AO - Sociology, demography

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GA407%2F08%2F1515" target="_blank" >GA407/08/1515: Citizens and the State in the Czech Republic:The Impact and Legacy of the Prague Spring 1968-2008</a><br>

Continuities

Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)

Publication year

2011

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Europe-Asia Studies

ISSN

0966-8136

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

63

Issue of the periodical within the volume

9

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

1719-1744

UT code for WoS article

000299221500009

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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