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2. Edward W. Said, ‘The Public Role of Writers and Intellectuals’, Nation 24 (17 September 2010), p. 27.
3. Vladimir Tismaneanu, ‘Truth, Trust, and Tolerance’, Problems of Post-Communism 43(2) (1996), p. 3.
4. György Konrad, Antipolitics: An Essay (San Diego: Harcourt, Brace,Jovanovich, 1984).
5. Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1998), pp. 349–360.