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FREEDOM AND ITS ENEMIES: PROBLEMS OF RE‐ESTABLISHING FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY IN THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT 1
Author(s) -
Klaus Václav
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.2005.00551.x
Subject(s) - openness to experience , democracy , context (archaeology) , communism , competition (biology) , freedom of choice , economic freedom , state (computer science) , political economy , political science , economics , law , social psychology , politics , geography , psychology , ecology , algorithm , computer science , biology , archaeology
The experience of living in non‐free communist societies may have made the people of Eastern Europe particularly sensitive to the weakening and ultimately the loss of freedom. Many see such a process currently taking place in a Europe that increasingly places group rights and entitlements above the rights of individuals. Such a process has been driven by a growing belief in the inevitability of market failure, a desire to use the state for personal gain and a fear of openness, freedom and competition.