Civil Society Strength at Regime Termination and Inequality in Post-communist Eurasia

Special SSEES Guest Lecture by Professor Michael Bernhard (University of Florida)

In his lecture which draws on a paper co-authored with Dong-Joon Jung, Professor Bernhard argues that the strength of civil society at the point of extrication from communism is a powerful predictor of how “liberal democratic” post-communist regimes become.

In cases where civil society was stronger at the moment of extrication the elite was disposed to a more embedded model of capitalism with stronger social protection.

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