Social Base of Transformation Programs in Belarus. Research report (abridged version)
Social Base of Transformation Programs in Belarus. Research report (abridged version)

Author(s): Aksana Shelest
Subject(s): Civil Society, Governance, Post-Communist Transformation, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Центр европейской трансформации
Summary/Abstract: The necessary condition of democratic transformations in Belarus is the formation of a strong civil society that should fulfill three main functions: 1) to act as a full-fledged party of the dialogue aimed at defining the country development agenda; 2) to produce the environment of appearing and implementing innovations in the country’s economic, technological, and socio-cultural development; and 3) to mobilize the intellectual and human potential so as to implement transformations. In order to fulfill these functions, it is necessary: 1) to have self-determined subjects in the field of Belarusan civil society, which have their own program proposals and vision of necessary changes across the nation or in a concrete sphere; 2) to have a social base of support and distribution of these tenets and implementation of programs.

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