Differentiation of the Social Situation in European Post-Communist Countries

Diferenciácia sociálnej situácie v európskych postkomunistických krajinách

Tomasz Michalski, Tomasz Wiskulski

In: Geografické informácie (Geographical Information), Ročník (Volume) 22, Číslo (Issue) 1, 2018, p. 317-329, ISSN 1337-9453

DOI: 10.17846/GI.2018.22.1.317-329

Abstract

After 1989, the countries today called post-communist began a tedious process of systemic transformation. Its result is progressive differentiation of the situation in them. The aim of the study is to analyse social differentiation in these countries. This was done in three dimensions based on 6 indicators: civil liberties (World Press Freedom Index, Doing Business ranking), wealth, but depicted more comprehensively than just in economic terms (Legatum Prosperity Index, Social Progress Index), gender/sexual equality (Gender Development Index, Human Rights Situation of LGBTI). In the course of analysis, it was found that the best situation prevails in the countries which are currently members of the European Union (except for Lithuania, Bulgaria, and Romania) and the worst one is in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States plus Albania and Macedonia.

Keywords: civil liberties, gender/sexual equality, post-communist countries, social situation, wealth

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