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In recent years, the development of civic engagement and the nonprofit sector in the former Eastern bloc countries has attracted special attention from political scientists and policymakers alike. Have civil society and the nonprofit sector in this part of the world developed into the societal underpinning of democracy? Or, on the contrary, even more than a decade after the collapse of socialist rule, are nonprofit organizations still functioning as proxies of state institutions in Eastern European countries? To what extent are the new democracies in Eastern Europe supported by their citizens?
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Mansfeldová, Z., Nałęcz, S., Priller, E., Zimmer, A. (2004). Civil Society in Transition: Civic Engagement and Nonprofit Organizations in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989. In: Zimmer, A., Priller, E. (eds) Future of Civil Society. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-80980-3_7
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