Conceptions Of Democracy In Post-Soviet Lithuania
Conceptions Of Democracy In Post-Soviet Lithuania

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article1 is to analyse the popular views of democracy in a post-communist society. It seeks to explore how the meanings of democracy are formed by the citizens that were socialised by the Soviet regime and have neither knowledge nor direct experience of democratic rule. The article will draw on qualitative research data collected in 2004 in four Lithuanian districts. The data reveal two conceptions of democracy dominating among ordinary citizens in Lithuania: 1) democracy as an opposition to the Soviet rule, and 2) democracy as an “ideal” type of government. The first conception mainly relates democracy with the

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