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Post-Communist Regime Trajectories - A Challenge to the Mainstream Comparative Approach
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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the newly gained dominance of liberal democracy as a political regime was accompanied by a new dominance of liberal democracy as a descriptive language. Concepts of political science, sociology, and economics that had been developed for the analysis of Western-type polities were applied to the various phenomena in the newly liberated countries. But the language of liberal democracies blurs the understanding of the current state of post-communism as it leads to conceptual stretching and brings in a host of hidden presumptions.
Discussant: Eli Gateva (Oxford)
Date:
11 March 2022, 16:00
Venue:
Online via Zoom
Speaker:
Balint Magyar (CEU)
Organising department:
Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)
Organisers:
Melis Laebens (University of Oxford),
Matthias Dilling (University of Oxford),
Giovanni Capoccia (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Politics Research Colloquium
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editors:
Holly Omand,
Rebecca Freeman
