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. Language: English