Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors - Preface - PART 1: SETTING THE CONTEXT - Introduction; R.F.Farnen - Authoritarianism, Democracy, and Education: A Preliminary Empirical 70-Nation Global Indicators Study; J.Meloen - Nationalism, Democracy, and Authority in North America and Europe since 1988: Lessons for Political Socialization and Civic Education; R.F.Farnen - Central and Eastern European Elite Perspectives on Political, Communications, Educational, Economic, and Environmental Changes (1989 to 1993); R.F.Farnen & D.B.German - PART 2: AREA/NATIONAL CASE STUDIES - What Makes a Slovak a Nationalist? A Case Study; H.Dekker, D.Malovn & R.Theulings - Polarization and the Development of Political Ideology in Germany: Race, Values and Threat; M.W.Watts - Hungarians' Conflicting Identifications with the Homeland and Europe; G.Csepeli, L.Keri & I.Stumpf - Problems of Transition to Democracy in Hungary: Political Participation, Voting Behaviour, and Partisan Attitudes; I.Stumpf - Deluded Nations; G.Csepeli - Democratization in the Ukraine Under Conditions of Post-Totalitarian Anomie: The Need for a New Human Rights Developmental Strategy; E.I.Golovakha & N.Panina PART 3: SOCIALIZATION PROCESSES: CASE STUDIES - Changing Nationality Stereotypes through Contact: An Experimental Test of the Contact Hypothesis among European Youngsters; H.Linssen, L.Lagendoorn & L.Mateusen - The Socialization Process for Hungary's New Political Elite; L.Keri - Identification with Social Groups and Intolerance among Dutch Adolescents: An Empirical Study; W.Vollebergh - Recent Changes in Polish Youth's Social and Political Consciousness; B.Fratczak-Rudnicka - PART 4: DEMOCRATIZATION TRENDS AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION - How Can the European Union be Democratized?; R.Meyenberg - Elite-Mass Linkages and the European Community: Testing Consensus Explanatory Models; H.Dekker & R.Willemse - PART 5: POLITICS AND/OF EDUCATION - The Relevance of Political Philosophy to Educational Theory: Hannah Arendt and 'Active Citizenship'; S.Miedema - Socialization for Moral Democracy; C.A.Klaassen - Democratic Citizen Competence: Political-Psychological and Political Socialization Research Perspectives; H.Dekker - Authoritarianism, 'Nie Wieder': Anti-Semitism in the Low Countries; J.D.Meloen - Democratic Socialization in the Schools; M.Conway, S.Bowman Damico & A.J.Damico - PART 6: CONCLUSIONS, SYNTHESIS, AND SUMMARY COMMENTS - General Conclusions and Overall Findings; R.F.Farnen - Index