Time Matters: Adapting to Transformation
Time Matters: Adapting to Transformation
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时间很重要:适应转型
DOI:
10.1080/13523270701840480
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发表时间:
2008
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影响因子:
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通讯作者:
Rose R
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作者:
Rose R
The transformation of a political system is an event compressed into a short span of time: by comparison with the longue durée that led to democratization in Western Europe, the break-up of the Soviet Union occurred very abruptly. By contrast, adapting to the consequences of transformation can be a lengthy process. It takes time for subjects to learn about the strengths and weaknesses of the new regime and time to unlearn much that was taken for granted in the old regime. Yet it need not take generations. Former subjects of communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe, including three former Soviet republics, have adapted to living under a democratic system of government within the European Union. Within a decade and a half after 1945 Germans socialized into Hitler’s Third Reich had learned to adapt to the democratic institutions of the Federal Republic–and their parents had to learn even more quickly to adapt to the Nazi regime. We are now a similar length of time from the transformation of the Soviet system. How and why have Russians adapted to political transformation? Unlike changes in political leadership in established democracies, changes in the Kremlin from Mikhail Gorbachev to Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin have been part of a pervasive triple transformation of polity, economy and society. Even if a Russian chose to ignore news from Moscow, he or she could not ignore its consequences in many aspects of everyday life from working to shopping and viewing television. In the time that has passed since the Soviet Union disappeared, Russians have had to alter their behaviour or risk becoming marginalized in a post-transformation society. In order to consolidate support for their authority, the leaders of a new regime, whether democratic or autocratic, want its subjects to adapt by giving support, or at least resigned acceptance, to the political system that they supply. 2 In any one year, variations may be accounted for by individual differences in social structure, economic circumstances or political attitudes, or by a combination of all three. However, an understanding of the dynamics of popular response to a new regime cannot be gained by testing rational choice or other theories of support for the regime at a single point in time, for both historical and national contexts matter. 3 Empirical evidence about public opinion is required for how popular attitudes develop during the critical early years from the launch of a new regime. This study explains how support for the new Russian Federation regime has developed as Russians have learned to adapt to the consequences of transformation. It does so by drawing on a unique source of evidence, 14 nationwide New Russia Barometer (NRB) sample surveys conducted by the Centre for the Study of Public Policy from January 1992 to January 2005 with an average of just under 2,000 respondents (see Table 1). Because the New Russia Barometer repeats the same questions over more than a decade, it can test how Russians adapt their economic, political and social attitudes
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DOI:
10.1111/1468-2508.t01-1-00006
发表时间:
2003
期刊:
The Journal of Politics
影响因子:
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作者:
W. Mishler;J. Willerton
通讯作者:
J. Willerton
影响因子:
3.2
作者:
R. Rose;W. Mishler
通讯作者:
W. Mishler
影响因子:
1.2
作者:
P. Vanhuysse
通讯作者:
P. Vanhuysse
影响因子:
1.6
作者:
R. Rose
通讯作者:
R. Rose
DOI:
--
发表时间:
1997
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影响因子:
--
作者:
J. Linz;A. Stepan
通讯作者:
A. Stepan