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Civil Society and the Legacies of Dictatorship

Bernhard, Michael, Karakoç, Ekrem·2007·World Politics
DOI 10.1353/wp.2008.0001
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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.

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  • For the vast majority of episodes, civil society and party institutionalization emerge early, partially shaped by their authoritarian legacies and the dynamics of their transitions.

    “For the vast majority of episodes civil society and party institutionalization emerge early, partially shaped by their authoritarian legacies (Bernhard and Karakoç 2007; Hicken and Kuhonta 2014; Rueschemeyer et al. 1992) and the dynamics of their transitions.”

    From Parties, Civil Society, and the Deterrence of Democratic Defection (2020) · cites this paper as Bernhard and Karakoç 2007

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Authors
Bernhard, M., & Karakoç, E.
Affiliations
Pennsylvania State University (US)
ORCID
Venue
World Politics
Publisher
Project MUSE
Published
2007-07
Volume
59
Issue
4
Pages
539-567
ISSN
  • 0043-8871 (ISSN-L)
  • 1086-3338
DOI
10.1353/wp.2008.0001
OpenAlex
W2062187494
Cited by
139
References
59
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 25 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 6
FWCI
9.00
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 1443 d)
Locations
  • World Politics (publishedVersion)
  • Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Conflict and Governance
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Theory and Democracy
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Eastern European Communism and Reforms
Keywords
civil society, dictatorship legacy, authoritarian regimes, political participation, protest participation, organizational participation, democratization, individual behavior

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