Socio-Cultural Aspects of Transition
Socio-Cultural Aspects of Transition

Author(s): Pero Maldini
Subject(s): Sociology, Government/Political systems, Electoral systems, Developing nations, Culture and social structure , EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: Centar za politološka istraživanja
Summary/Abstract: Establishment of democratic regimes in former authoritarian societies has emphasized the importance and vitality of democracy and marked large social, political and cultural changes. But, in spite of institutional and normative constitution of democracy and its general acceptability in almost all transitional societies, there are obvious and great differences in the attained democratic range within various postcommunist societies. Instead of transformation process and democratic consolidation in many transition societies, one can often find undemocratic political practice with certain retrograde processes, contrary to democratic transformation of society. Such experiences indicate that transition is not unambiguous and predictable process of social development which necessarily leads towards democratic regime, and also that normative-institutional democratic constitution is not sufficient to make a political regime democratic.

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