| ID | 080168 |
| Title Proper | Civil Society and the legacies of dictatorship |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Bernhard, Michael ; Karakoc, Ekrem |
| Publication | 2007. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The literature on civil society in postcommunist regimes highlights its weakness as compared with civil society in other democracies. In this article the authors make a general argument on how different patterns of antecedent dictatorship affect the development of civil society across a range of democracies. They examine the slow emergence of two behaviors associated with a robust civil society-participation in organizational life and in protest-and explain variation across countries as a function of regime history. They draw their individual-level data from the World Values Survey and analyze the behavior of over forty-one thousand citizens from forty-two democracies. Using methods of hierarchical linear modeling to control for both national-level and individual-level factors, the authors find that different types of dictatorship and variation in their duration produce different negative legacies for the development of civil society |
| `In' analytical Note | World Politics Vol. 59, No.4; Jul 2007: p539-567 |
| Journal Source | World Politics Vol. 59, No.4; Jul 2007: p539-567 |
| Key Words | Civil Society ; Dictatorship ; Democracy |