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Publication details
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Ort: Basingstoke
Jahr: 1988
Pages: 225-252
Reihe: Studies in Russia and East Europe
ISBN (Hardback): 9780333439104
Volle Referenz:
, "Ideology and the policy process", in: Ideology and Soviet politics, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1988
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Ideology and the policy process
pp. 225-252
in: Stephen K. White, Alex Pravda (eds), Ideology and Soviet politics, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1988Abstrakt
Does ideology matter in the Soviet Union? This is a question that naturally comes to mind when reviewing the preceding chapters. In a basic sense, ideology clearly matters inasmuch as it figures importantly in Soviet political life.1 The Soviet party continues to devote considerable resources to keeping ideology visible and conveying its content to a mass domestic and international audience. But visibility is not what most have in mind when asking whether ideology matters. What is really meant is: does it make a difference, and if so, how great a difference? Who believes in what elements of the ideology and, perhaps most pertinent, what role does it play in politics? The central concern of most posing such questions is the effect of ideology on the making of Soviet policy at home and abroad.
Publication details
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Ort: Basingstoke
Jahr: 1988
Pages: 225-252
Reihe: Studies in Russia and East Europe
ISBN (Hardback): 9780333439104
Volle Referenz:
, "Ideology and the policy process", in: Ideology and Soviet politics, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1988