Democracy and political culture in Eastern Europe / edited by Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Dieter Fuchs and Jan Zielonka.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [379]-388) and index.

Introduction : support for democracy and autocracy in eastern Europe -- Comparative perspectives -- Democratic communities in Europe : a comparison between East and West -- East European value systems in global perspective -- Historical and cultural borderlines in Eastern Europe -- National perspectives -- The Czech Republic : critical democrats and the persistence of democratic values -- Slovenia in central Europe : merely meteorological or a value kinship? -- Hungary : structure and dynamics of democratic consolidation -- Slovakia : pathways to a democratic community -- Poland : citizens and democratic politics -- Latvia : democracy as an abstract value -- Lithuania : civic society and democratic orientation -- Estonia : changing value patterns in a divided society -- Romania : fatalistic political cultures revisited -- Bulgaria : democratic orientations in support of civil society -- Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine : construction of democratic communities.