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Contends that East German democratization held to the instant success model by virtue of communist-driven modernization, which set the attitudinal & associational stage for democracy as soon as the regime was replaced via free parliamentary elections. This is contrary to arguments that insist that failed communist modernization led to regime collapse & that reunification was the true start of democratization. The five stages of the instant success model of democratization are detailed, demonstrating that four of the five stages had been completed prior to the Oct 1990 reunification, with the fifth -- elite transformation -- beginning before then. Although a unified normative commitment to democracy is seen to prevail among eastern elites, it is necessary to gauge the extent to which eastern & western German elite understandings converge on the notion of democracy. This is attended to, drawing on survey data, & it is found that eastern elites possessed a far stronger collectivist orientation than in the west. Thus, while modernization yields many universal outcomes, it appears to differ between state socialist & capitalist societies with respect to the distribution of collectivist & individualist reviews. 3 Tables, 36 References. J. Zendejas

Contends that East German democratization held to the instant success model by virtue of communist-driven modernization, which set the attitudinal & associational stage for democracy as soon as the regime was replaced via free parliamentary elections. This is contrary to arguments that insist that failed communist modernization led to regime collapse & that reunification was the true start of democratization. The five stages of the instant success model of democratization are detailed, demonstrating that four of the five stages had been completed prior to the Oct 1990 reunification, with the fifth -- elite transformation -- beginning before then. Although a unified normative commitment to democracy is seen to prevail among eastern elites, it is necessary to gauge the extent to which eastern & western German elite understandings converge on the notion of democracy. This is attended to, drawing on survey data, & it is found that eastern elites possessed a far stronger collectivist orientation than in the west. Thus, while modernization yields many universal outcomes, it appears to differ between state socialist & capitalist societies with respect to the distribution of collectivist & individualist reviews. 3 Tables, 36 References. J. Zendejas