| Autor: |
Spencer, Philip, Wollman, Howard |
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Contemporary Politics; Jun97, Vol. 3 Issue 2, p171-188, 18p |
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This article explores the relationship between nationalism and democracy in the context of the post communist tradition in eastern Europe. It is argued that nationalism should not be seen here simply as a resurgence of something long-repressed, but as a complex historical and political phenomenon which continued to operate both on and beneath the surface of political life throughout the communist period. It is argued that the role nationalism has played in the transition has been largely negative, at best in tension with democracy and at worst antithetical to it. In a number of cases, nationalism has been cynically used by leaders both to gain access to, or to hold on to, power, to the detriment of the democratic process. The competing logics of nationalism and democracy are identified in a discussion of four separate cases, revealing the inherently exclusionary logic of nationalism as a political force. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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