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Postcommunist Subversion: Social Science and Democratization in East Europe and Eurasia

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M. Steven Fish
M. Steven Fish*
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The Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
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Our political malaise is due to the same cause as our social malaise: that is, to the lack of secondary cadres to interpose between the individual and the State. We have seen that these secondary groups are essential if the State is not to oppress the individual: they are also necessary if the State is to be sufficiently free of the individual.

–Émile Durkheim, Professional Ethics and Civic Morals

Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability

–Martin Luther King, Jr., A Knock at Midnight

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Slavic Review , Volume 58 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Ten Years after 1989: What Have We Learned? , Winter 1999 , pp. 794 - 823
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1999

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1. The scores are the averages of the ratings on “political rights” and “civil liberties,” with 1 representing the highest and 7 the lowest. The survey methodology captures electoral rights and the meaningfulness of elections, associational rights, and communicative and speech rights—that is, the factors that constitute the core of Robert Dahl's celebrated definition of polyarchy. Since it accounts for the rights that make elections meaningful (e.g., freedom of association), the Freedom House survey, like Dahl's definition, avoids the pure “electoralism” found in some minimalist conceptions, such as in Joseph Schumpeter's celebrated definition. In the survey, countries that score 2.5 or better are rated “free”; those that rank 3–5 “partly free”; and those that receive 5.5 or worse “not free.” Countries in the first category may be regarded as democracies. “Semidemocracy” or “partial democracy” best fits those in the second category, though some observers might classify countries that rate a 3 as full-blown democracies and those that rate a 5 as autocracies. Polities in the final class are best characterized as autocracies or authoritarian regimes. See Freedom House, “Annual Survey of Freedom, Country Scores, 1972–73 to 1998–99,” at http:\\www.freedomhouse.org (consulted April 1999); the survey methodology section of any recent volume of Freedom House, The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties (New York, various years); Dahl, Robert A., Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy: Autonomy versus Control (New Haven, 1982), 11 Google Scholar; and Schmitter, Philippe C. and Karl, Terry L., “What Democracy Is … and Is Not,” in Diamond, Larry and Planner, Marc F., eds., The Global Resurgence of Democracy (Baltimore, 1996), 49–62 Google Scholar. See also Karatnycky, Adrian, Motyl, Alexander, and Shor, Boris, eds., Nations in Transit 1997: Civil Society, Democracy and Markets in East Central Europe and the Newly Independent States (New Brunswick, N.J., 1997)Google Scholar.

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14. Political parties and other independent societal organizations are lumped together here under the category of civil society, though parties are sometimes separated from other organizations in the literature on regime change. See Fish, M. Steven, “Russia's Fourth Transition, “Journal of Democracy 5, no. 3 (July 1994): 41nlCrossRefGoogle Scholar. In a related but separate matter, it merits note that the Freedom House scores do not include the overall development or maturity of political parties or other societal organizations as determinants of their “freedom ratings.” Part of the scoring in the “civil liberties” portion of the rating does take note of whether or not autonomous organizations exist. But the emphasis is on governments’ de facto tolerance of free association and expression, not on the actual extent of development of the organizations of civil society, nor for that matter on governments’ stated policies and de jure expressions of rights. See the survey methodology section of any recent volume of Freedom House, Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties.

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17. While the notion of “semidemocracy” cannot be fully explicated here, in general terms it may be regarded as applying to countries that fall into the “partly free” category in the Freedom House ratings. See the explanation of these categories provided above.

18. See Fish, M. Steven, “Moving Backwards: The Dynamics of Democratic Erosion and Reversal in the Postcommunist World” (Working Paper 2.67, Center for German and European Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1998)Google Scholar.

19. Durkheim, Professional Ethics and Civic Morals, 98–109.

20. Interview with Virginia Kiriakova, Sofia, 3 January 1998. On the UDF, see Ragaru, Nadége, “L'Union des forces démocratiques en campagne ou la lente consolidation d'un parti politique en régime post-communiste (mars-avril 1997),” Cahiers Analole Leroy-Beaulieu, 1998, no. 2:51–60 Google Scholar.

21. The generalizations offered here are based in part on personal observation and field research during 1997 and 1998. Supporting information from published sources is found in Stanchev, Krassen, “Democrats Strike Back,” Institute for Market Economics Newsletter (Sofia) 4, no. 4 (April 1997)Google Scholar; Dainov, Evgenii et al., Vlastla i khorata: Konfliktite na Bulgarskoto obshchestvo (Sofia, 1997)Google Scholar; Fish, M. Steven, “Mongolia: Democracy without Prerequisites,” Journal of Democracy 9, no. 3 (July 1998): 134–38CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Ginsburg, Tom, “Mongolia in 1997: Deepening Democracy,” Asian Survey 38, no. 1 (January 1998): 64–68 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Ilya Prizel, “Ukraine between Proto-Democracy and ‘Soft’ Authoritarianism,” and William Crowther, “The Politics of Democratization in Postcommunist Moldova,” both in Dawisha, Karen and Parrott, Bruce, eds., Democratic Changes and Authoritarian Reactions in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova (Cambridge, Eng., 1997), 330–69, 282–329CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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For information and insight on Kazakhstan, I am particularly indebted to the following persons whom I interviewed in Almaty, 17–19 August 1998: Konstantin Syroezhkin, Nurlan Abliazov, Viachislav Panfilov, Leonid Solomin, Andrei Chebotarev, Petr Svoik, and several anonymous interviewees.

31. See Fish, “Mongolia,” 132–34. For this information on constitutional choice in Mongolia, I am especially grateful to the following individuals whom I interviewed in Ulan Bator, 16–26 February 1998: Tsedendambyn Batbayar, Bat-Amgalangyn Boldbaatar, Büdragchaagiyn Dashyondon, Baldangiyn Enkhmandakh, and Radnaasümbereliyn Gonchigdorj.

32. Fish, “Democratization's Requisites,” 225–27, 231–33, 235–39. For other analyses that investigate the possibilities of a positive relationship between economic and political reform, see Bunce, Valerie, “Sequencing of Political and Economic Reforms,” in Hardt, John P. and Kaufman, Richard, eds., East-Central European Economies in Transition (Washington, D.C., 1994), 59–60 Google Scholar; Nelson, Joan M., “Linkages between Politics and Economics, “Journal of Democracy 5, no. 4 (October 1994): 49–62 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Hellman, Joel S., “Winners Take All: The Politics of Partial Reform in Postcommunist Transitions,” World Politics 50, no. 2 (January 1998): 203–34CrossRefGoogle Scholar. For clear statements of the trade-offs hypothesis, see Nelson, Daniel N., “Civil Society Endangered,” Social Research 63, no. 2 (Summer 1996): 345–68Google Scholar; Orenstein, Mitchell, “Lawlessness from Above and Below: Economic Radicalism and Political Institutions,” SAIS Review 18, no. 1 (Winter-Spring 1998): 35–50 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Przeworski, Adam, Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe, and Latin America (Cambridge, Eng., 1991), 183–87CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Przeworski, Adam, “The Neoliberal Fallacy, “Journal of Democracy 3, no. 3 (July 1992): 45–59 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Bresser Pereira, Luis Carlos, Maravall, José María, and Przeworski, Adam, Economic Reforms in New Democracies: A Social-Democratic Approach (Cambridge, Eng., 1993)Google Scholar.

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35. For country rankings on the extent of economic reform, see ibid., 35. See also Karatnycky, Motyl, and Shor, eds. Nations in Transit 1997.

36. The argument that successful economic reform during democratic transitions always requires executive decrees is made in Przeworski, Democracy and the Market, 183–84. The postcommunist experience has refuted this contention. See Frye, Timothy, “A Politics of Institutional Choice: Post-Communist Presidencies,” Comparative Political Studies 30, no. 5 (October 1997): 523–52CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Fish, “Determinants of Economic Reform in the Post-Communist World.”

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42. Interview with Alek Mamedov, Baku, 27 December 1995.

43. For insights into the problem, I am grateful to Krassen Stanchev (interview, Sofia, 8 January 1998); Ognyan Minchev (interview, Sofia, 13 January 1998); and Bahri Iumer (interview, Sofia, 7 January 1998). For published work, see Karasimeonov, Georgi, “Sea-Changes in the Bulgarian Party System,” Journal of Communist Studies 9, no. 3 (September 1993): 272–78CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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45. Interview with Gabriel Andreescu, Bucharest, 27 April 1998.

46. For incisive examination of this problem in the postcommunist region, see Tismaneanu, Vladimir, Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism and Myth in Post-Communist Europe (Princeton, 1998)Google Scholar. See also Barany, Zoltan, “Orphans of Transition: Gypsies in Eastern Europe “Journal of Democracy 9, no. 3 (July 1998): 142 CrossRefGoogle Scholar. For general theoretical discussion and empirical analysis suggesting that democratization may actually diminish the risk of ethnic conflict, see Rummel, Rudolph J.,” Democracy, Power, Genocide, and Mass Murder: Theory of Democide,“ Journal of Conflict Resolution 39, no. 1 (March 1995): 3–26 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Diamond, Larry, Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation (Baltimore, 1999), 6 Google Scholar.

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53. Durkheim, Professional Ethics and Civic Morals, 85–92.

54. Interview with Yonko Grozev, Sofia, 2 January 1998.

55. On a scale of 0–10, with 10 representing total freedom from corruption, the mean “corruption perceptions index” for the seventeen African countries was 3.6; for the twelve postcommunist countries, 3.7. The empirical range among countries is large, varying from 10 (received by Denmark) to 1.4 (received by Cameroon); the 0.1 point difference in mean scores between African and postcommunist countries is minuscule and substantively insignificant. Figures calculated from data provided in “The Transparency International 1998 Corruption Perceptions Index” at www.transparency.de/ documents/cpi/index.html (consulted April 1999).

56. A bivariate regression of Freedom House freedom ratings for 1998–99 on the Transparency International corruption perceptions index fails to show a statistically significant relationship, even at the least demanding level (p < 0.1). In the regression, t = —1.50; Adj. R2 = .10. n = 12. These results should be taken merely as one bit of evidence, but the analysis does at least suggest that greater progress in the realm of democratization has not automatically reduced corruption. Analysis based on data provided in ibid.; and Freedom House, “Annual Survey of Freedom, Country Scores, 1972–73 to 1998–99.”

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72. Ibid., 42–54, 76–109.

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