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Transition fatigue? : cross-country evidence from micro data
Rovelli, Riccardo; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2009
The transition process has had different distributional impacts across different interest groups and countries. These … have led to differences in the support for transition. In this paper, we study support attitudes for both the economic and … political transition using data from the New Barometer Surveys for 14 transition economies from 1991 to 2004. We document that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860717
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Individual support for economic and political changes : evidence from transition countries, 1991-2004
Rovelli, Riccardo; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2011
Using a unique dataset for 14 transition economies, we propose a new measure for individual evaluations of transitional … those living in the CIS countries, especially during the 1990s. We also find evidence that transition-related hardship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737236
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Did growth and reforms increase citizens' support for the transition?
Golinelli, Roberto; Rovelli, Riccardo - 2011
How did post-communist transformations affect people's perceptions of their economic and political systems? We model a pseudo-panel with 89 country-year clusters, based on 13 countries observed between 1991 and 2004, to identify the macro and institutional drivers of the public opinion. Our main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737127
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Did growth and reforms increase citizens' support for the transition?
Golinelli, Roberto; Rovelli, Riccardo - 2011
. -- political economy ; post-communist transition ; economic reforms ; economic performance ; support for reforms ; public opinion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009311013
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Double-edged sword: persistent effects of communism on life satisfaction
Otrachshenko, Vladimir; Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2021
Communism was a two-edged sword for the trustees of the former regime. Communist party members and their relatives enjoyed status and privileges, while secret police informants were often coerced to work clandestinely and gather compromising materials about friends, colleagues, and neighbors. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612861
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Double-edged sword : persistent effects of communism on life satisfaction
Otrachshenko, Vladimir; Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2021
Communism was a two-edged sword for the trustees of the former regime. Communist party members and their relatives enjoyed status and privileges, while secret police informants were often coerced to work clandestinely and gather compromising materials about friends, colleagues, and neighbors. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616150
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Russians' "impressionable years" : life experience during the exit from communism and Putin-era beliefs
Pyle, William - 2020
, from the first wave of the Life in Transition Survey, I show that a range of attitudes - including diminished support for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240790
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Structural reform and productivity growth in emerging Europe and Central Asia
Georgiev, Yordan; Nagy-Mohacsi, Piroska; Plekhanov, … - 2017
Since 1990, countries in emerging Europe and Central Asia have undergone comprehensive economic transformation. These reforms helped achieve an impressive degree of income convergence toward the levels of the advanced economies, although at the cost of rising inequality and lower life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011741685
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Non-linear geographics and the economics of transition and democratization
Brezis, Elise S.; Verdier, Thierry - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of geography on the transition process in authoritarian political … simple model of transition and democratization is presented wherein we show that the effectiveness of repression by the … country to start a transition process towards democratization is not necessarily the one nearest to the free world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580742
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Civil society, institutional change and the politics of reform : the great transition
Bruszt, László; Campos, Nauro; Fidrmuc, Jan; Roland, … - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between differences in civil society development under communism and the political, economic and institutional change and transformation after 1989. We collected a unique dataset on nature and intensity of dissident activities in 27 former communist countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008661253