A01=Matevz Tomsic
Author_Matevz Tomsic
Category=JHB
Category=JP
Democracies
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Product details
- ISBN 9783631675045
- Weight: 200g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 25 Apr 2016
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Paperback
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The book deals with the analysis of key political actors in the ‘new democracies’ from Central and Eastern Europe. It is focused on character of elites, particularly political ones, and their role in the process of societal change. The author argues that elite configuration in terms of relationships between different elite factions as well as their cultural profile has strong impact on developmental dynamics of these societies. Although – at least in some countries from the region – political elites have managed to build the institutional foundations of systems of a market economy and a parliamentary democracy, with only small chances of any reverses taking place, they have been much less successful in establishing mechanisms for society’s self-organisation.
Matevž Tomšič is political sociologist and Professor at the School of Advanced Social Studies in Nova Gorica. He is also engaged at the Faculty of Information Studies in Novo mesto and at the Faculty of Media in Ljubljana. His research interests include character of elites, quality of governance, political culture, and democratisation. He was engaged in several international research projects on these topics.
