Доверие в държавата или в полезността от държавата: нагласите към ролята на държавата в единадесет постсоциалистически общества
Beliefs in the State or in the Usefulness of the State? Attitudes Regarding the Role of State in Eleven Post–socialist Societies

Summary/Abstract: Drawing on a cross-country survey of attitudes towards post-socialist order, the paper focuses on attitudes towards the role of state. This analysis is lead by a hypothesis that belief in strong state role is motivated more by interests than values, i.e. that attitudes favouring an active role of the state are widespread especially among those social strata which expect benefits from state regulative action. This hypothesis implies a claim that statist attitudes cannot be treated just as a relic of socialist regime and that they cannot be seen as dysfunctional in all respects in the new circumstances. The survey data generally confirm these hypotheses but they also show that there exist considerable differences among the surveyed countries.

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