The analysis of an international data of several post-socialist countries set reveals that attitudes towards social inequalities, especially economic ones, and towards the role of the state at regulating them are complex, contradictory and state specific. The data in some respects corroborate a claim about the prevalence of egalitarianism, statism and suspicion to¬wards the merit-based distributive justice in post-socialist societies, but at the same time they indicate that inequality related attitudes cannot be described in such simple terms.
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ESS group has published another in a series of monographs called “Values in transition”, which offer the readers a comprehensive collection of all academic surveys the team has designed and carried out between 1999 and 2008. ‘Values’ No 4 offers a whole series of methodological papers: theory and practice of comparative and longitudinal research (Malnar), understanding survey data (Štebe), history and nature of telephone surveys, context effects in survey research (Uhan), equivalence advances brought about by the European Social Survey and comparative capital of the ISSP time series.
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