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6 - Introduction to Part III

from Part III - Cross-national Quantitative Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2024

Henry Thomson
Henry Thomson
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
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In this part of the book, I move from a comparative historical analysis of Poland and East Germany in Part II to an analysis of quantitative data drawn from all the socialist dictatorships of Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania. The purpose of the following two chapters is to test whether the argument developed in Chapter 2 can travel beyond the Polish and East German cases examined above to explain variation in the turnover of coercive elites and the size of coercive institutions across the region from 1945 to 1989.

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communismrepressioncoercive institutionselite cohesioncoercive capacitysocial orderquantitative analysisdifference-in-differencesresearch design
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Watching the Watchers
Communist Elites, the Secret Police and Social Order in Cold War Europe
 , pp. 175 - 187
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Introduction to Part III
  • Henry Thomson, Arizona State University
  • Book: Watching the Watchers
  • Online publication: 22 February 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009413602.006
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  • Introduction to Part III
  • Henry Thomson, Arizona State University
  • Book: Watching the Watchers
  • Online publication: 22 February 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009413602.006
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  • Introduction to Part III
  • Henry Thomson, Arizona State University
  • Book: Watching the Watchers
  • Online publication: 22 February 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009413602.006
Available formats
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