civil society emerged.
In the political sphere multi-party democracy and free elections were introduced and a great number of countries changed their international alliances and became member states of NATO and the European Union. In the economic sphere command economies were replaced by market ones. During the past two decades these transformations have
left their imprint on the way people in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe have come to perceive, cognize and evaluate social, political and economic phenomena, i.e. their attitudes and value orientations.
This raises important questions such as: In which direction and how did values shared by post-communist citizens evolve? Are these citizens today much closer to the values shared by the citizens from European countries who never lived under a communist
regime or not? Is there a common pattern of value change in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe or is each country evolving in its own direction or is there sooner a clustering of countries visible?
Studia Sociologica is preparing a special issue focused on changes in values and attitudes in Central and Eastern Europe occurring during the post-communist transition. We welcome theoretical and empirical papers which explore the changes in value orientation in Central and Eastern Europe over the last twenty years. Papers which approach the topic from a comparative perspective, either longitudinal or cross-sectional are especially welcomed.
For those authors willing to focus on the Romanian case, the 2008 European Values Study Romanian database could be made available. Potential contributors to this issue should make their intention manifest by sending an abstract (200 words) by the 1st of January 2010 to the guest editors of this issue. Those who intend to analyze the
Romanian data should contact Malina Voicu.
Deadline for sending papers: 1st of July 2010. Please send the abstracts and papers as Word document, according to the formatting guideline of Studia Sociologia, to the guest editors:
Wil Arts: wa0@xs4all.nl
Malina Voicu: malina@iccv. ro
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