Intro -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One Mapping values and orientations in Central and Eastern Europe -- Loek Halman & Mălina Voicu -- Introduction -- The contributions to this book -- References -- Chapter Two (Post-)modernization, individualization and individualism: Value changes in Central and Eastern Europe in the first decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain -- Loek Halman & Wil Arts -- Introduction -- Preliminary questions and answers -- Research questions -- Individualization -- Hypotheses -- Data, measurements and analytical strategy -- Data -- Measurements -- Analytical strategy -- Results -- Religion -- Politics -- Morality -- Marriage and family -- Generalization or heterogenization? -- Conclusions and discussion -- Appendix: Figures -- References -- Chapter Three Market transition, social stratification and culture shift in Eastern Europe -- Wil Arts -- Introduction -- Research questions -- Theoretical perspectives -- New institutionalism -- Power conversion theory -- Modernization theory -- Summary -- Meta-theoretical questions -- Empirical evidence and theoretical adaptations -- Technological-ideological evolutionism -- Ideology as a motivating and legitimizing factor -- Culture shift in Eastern Europe -- Conclusion and discussion -- References -- Chapter Four Dividing the pie: Support for the free market and state interventionism models of market economy -- Claudiu D. Tufiş -- Two visions of a market economy -- Support for market economy: Individual level -- Support for market economy: Country level -- Data, variables and methodology -- Data -- Dependent variables -- Independent variables: Individual level -- Independent variables: Country level -- Methodology -- Results and discussion -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- References.

Chapter Five Social legacy and social values: A post-communist experience -- Ivan Rimac & Siniša Zrinščak -- Introduction -- Theoretical background -- Aim of the study -- Data -- Strategy of analysis -- Dependent variables -- Independent variables -- Invariance of individual-level indicators -- Results -- Readiness to help -- Multilevel regression analysis -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter Six Political culture(s) in Eastern Europe: An Eastern European map of political support -- Susanne Pickel -- Introduction -- Theory of democratic political culture -- Data, measures and methods -- Case selection and data -- Measurements -- Results -- The structure of political culture in Eastern Europe -- Culture and structure in Eastern Europe -- System stability -- Democratic tradition, legacies and modernization -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- Indicators for multivariate analyses -- References -- Chapter Seven Explaining political participation in East Central Europe -- Gabriel Bădescu & Bogdan Radu -- Explaining political participation: An overview -- Determinants of political participation -- Adjusting expectations: Contextuality in Central and Eastern Europe -- Political participation, East and West -- Conclusion -- Annex -- References -- Chapter Eight Satisfaction with democracy in Europe: Differences between East and West -- Edurne Bartolomé Peral -- Political support and satisfaction with democracy -- Explanations for satisfaction with democracy -- Long-term explanatory factors -- Short-term effects -- Other relevant factors -- Hypotheses -- Data -- Results: Descriptives -- Satisfaction with democracy and its correlates: Bivariate analyses -- Multivariate analysis -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Coding of variables -- References.

Chapter Nine Changing support for democracy in Central and Eastern Europe between 1995 and 2005: Cohort replacement and contextual effects -- Mălina Voicu -- Theoretical framework -- Cohort replacement versus intracohort change -- Theories of support for democracy -- Data, methods and measurement -- Results -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter Ten The effect of democratization and support for democracy on gender attitudes in 19 European societies -- Mălina Voicu -- Review of literature and hypotheses -- Individual determinants of gender values -- Macro-level factors: Cultural and economic explanations -- Gender equality and democratization in Central and Eastern Europe -- Data, measurement and methods -- Data and method -- Dependent variable -- Independent variables: Individual level -- Independent variables: Country level -- Results -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Eleven Pride in citizenship in a new country -- Zuzana Kusá, Bohumil Búzik, David Kostlán -- Theoretical framework -- Data -- Hypotheses -- Results -- The satisfactory home hypothesis -- Conclusions -- References -- About the Authors -- Authors Index -- Subject Index.

This volume elaborates on a number of issues that seem particular important for the people in Central and Eastern Europe: the development and working of democracy, the public support for, legitimacy and efficacy of democracy and the free market economy, and of course the stability of the newly established political culture.

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