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Individualism and the Rise of Democracy in Poland /
"This book investigates the long-term preconditions of lasting and successful democratization. It counters conventional wisdom that they are a matter of proper institutional design, or that the political culture of democracy is a by-product of modernizing economic change. Instead, it argues tha...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester, N.Y. :
University of Rochester Press,
2023.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part One. Individualism and social theory
- Four discourses of individualism
- Individualism reconsidered
- Theories of social individuation and a way forward
- Part Two. Individualism and democracy in Poland
- The democratic promise of western Poland
- Individualism disaggregated : the Wrocław and Łódź elites in a cultural perspective
- Part Three. Rupture and reintegration
- Rupture, 1945-1948
- The Communist Party and the taming of the frontier, 1949-1955
- A quasi-reformation : the Catholic Church in the western territories, 1945-1956
- The socializers, 1965-1980
- Conclusion : the resilience of individualism
- Appendix 1. Selected socioeconomic development indicators for Wrocław and Łódź at the beginning of the democratic era (1994)
- Appendix 2. Interview questionnaire for sorting out individual and corporate identities
- Appendix 3. List of interviewees together with their classification into two main identity types.