Rethinking Civil Society: Postcommunism and the Problem of Trust

Issue Date July 1994
Volume 5
Issue 3
Page Numbers 18-30
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About the Author

Richard Rose is director of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and creator of the New Europe Barometer surveys of mass response to transformation in postcommunist countries. His latest book, coauthored with William Mishler and Neil Munro, is Russia Transformed: Developing Political Support for a New Regime (2006).

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