Abstract
К вопросу о кризисных тенденциях в сфере легитимности политических режимов стран Прибалтики
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This article considers the legitimacy of political regimes in the Baltic States by analys
The article stresses the problem of legitimacy reproduction resulting from the limited representation of the national party systems
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This article considers the legitimacy of political regimes in the Baltic States by analys-. Fukuyama distinguishes between ‘conquered’ and ‘granted’ democracies, stressing that despite short-term popular mobilisation during the ‘velvet revolutions’ in the countries of former communist bloc, ‘the initial impetus still came from Gorbachev’ [14] This suggests that Eastern European democratic institutions are vulnerable, since the society is hardly capable of strengthening them and creating stable party systems. Pessimists invoke numerous historical examples of declining legitimacy of democratic regimes caused by revolutions, military defeats, and political crises and by small states losing political protection of empires [15] With this in mind, let us analyse legitimacy in the context of the Baltic States using the key indicators of popular confidence in political institutions, incidence of corruption, and the state of the party system. In Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, the level of confidence in the EU is well above the Union average
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