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Generational Differences in Values in Central and Eastern E urope: The Effects of Politico‐Economic Transition
Author(s) -
Turkina Ekaterina,
SurzhkoHarned Lena
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
jcms: journal of common market studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.54
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1468-5965
pISSN - 0021-9886
DOI - 10.1111/jcms.12155
Subject(s) - dominance (genetics) , resizing , consolidation (business) , convergence (economics) , communism , cohort , political science , post communist , demographic economics , development economics , transition countries , politics , economics , economic growth , international economics , european union , biology , medicine , biochemistry , accounting , gene , law
This article explores the effects of post‐communist transition and E uropean enlargement on intergenerational politico‐economic values in three groups of countries: Central and Eastern E uropean countries that became E uropean U nion members; countries with EU membership prospects; and those that have no membership prospects, at least in the foreseeable future. The analysis indicates considerable differences between these three groups of countries and shows that over time E uropeanization served as an intra‐cohort mechanism of social change: it smoothed over intergenerational differences and led to a trend of convergence in values between new Eastern members of the EU and Western E urope. E uropeanization also appears to have some harmonizing power on intergenerational differences in countries with EU membership prospects. At the same time, the rough post‐communist transition process and the lack of consolidation mechanisms created considerable intergenerational differences in E uropean countries without EU membership prospects, as revealed by the dominance of cohort replacement mechanism in these countries.