Political Culture and Post-Communism

Download or read book Political Culture and Post-Communism written by S. Whitefield and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-10-11 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our understanding of the dynamics of Communist systems was substantially improved by taking political culture into account. But how much does the concept of political culture add to our empirical understanding of post-Communist Russia? The book's contributors engage with theoretical debates between political culture and competing 'rational choice' and institutionalist approaches to post-Soviet politics, and provide illustrative empirical studies of civic participation, views of national identity, the Russian criminal justice system and political violence.