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in the course
of the 1990s this ideological polarization was diffused and
transformed into a number of ideological-political strands. the most
spectacular ?threefold ?decline was in the ranks of the supporters
of radical market reforms, and for obvious reasons. at the start of
the reforms of the early 1990s, the democrats had embraced
enthusiastically and uncritically a set of attractive but abstract
ideas, such as democracy, human rights, and the market economy. by
contrast, at the close of the decade the general population had
firsthand experience of homegrown liberalism in all its concrete and
often unappealing political and economic realities. |
