Search Results - "East European politics"

Ethnopopulism and democratic backsliding in Central Europe by Anna Vachudova, Milada

“…Ethnopopulism is an elite strategy for winning votes and concentrating power - a common playbook for the erosion of liberal democracy that is empowered and…”
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Understanding the illiberal turn: democratic backsliding in the Czech Republic by Hanley, Seán, Vachudova, Milada Anna

“…Democratic backsliding in Central Europe has so far been most acute in Hungary and Poland, states once considered frontrunners in democratisation. In this…”
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Rethinking "democratic backsliding" in Central and Eastern Europe - looking beyond Hungary and Poland by Cianetti, Licia, Dawson, James, Hanley, Seán

“…This essay introduces contributions to a special issue of East European Politics on "Rethinking democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe", which…”
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Right-wing authoritarian innovations in Central and Eastern Europe by Enyedi, Zsolt

“…The decline of the quality of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe was facilitated by intellectual, ideological, and organizational innovations of a new…”
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Illiberalism: a conceptual introduction by Laruelle, Marlene

“…Illiberalism is an emerging concept in social sciences that remains to be tested by different disciplines and approaches. Here, I advance a fine-grained frame…”
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Patterns of competitive authoritarianism in the Western Balkans by Bieber, Florian

“…The countries of the Western Balkans during the 1990s were dominated by competitive authoritarian regimes that combined multi-party elections with nationalist…”
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Caesarean politics in Hungary and Poland by Sata, Robert, Karolewski, Ireneusz Pawel

“…We propose the new concept of Caesarean politics to explain democratic deconsolidation in Hungary and Poland. We argue the move towards illiberal democracy in…”
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Rebuilding the Hungarian right through conquering civil society: the Civic Circles Movement by Greskovits, Béla

“…The article analyses the Civic Circles Movement that paved the way for Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party from the opposition to enduring political rule. It is…”
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Symbolic Thickening of Public Culture and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Poland by Kotwas, Marta, Kubik, Jan

“…A key feature of thin populist ideology is a sharp division of the social world into “good people” and “bad elites.” Populist ideology “thickens” when it is…”
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The State as a Firm: Understanding the Autocratic Roots of Technocratic Populism by Buštíková, Lenka, Guasti, Petra

“…Why, when, and how does populism emerge in a stable democracy? This article investigates the political logic and ideological appeal of a rarely explored form…”
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What do we know about civil society and regime change thirty years after 1989? by Bernhard, Michael

“…This essay discusses the lessons of thirty years of postcommunist politics for our understanding of the relationship between civil society and regime change…”
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Democratic backsliding in the European Union: the role of the Hungarian-Polish coalition by Holesch, Adam, Kyriazi, Anna

“…Combining the insights of EU-specific research on backsliding and coalitions with the literature on the international collaboration of autocrats, we argue that…”
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Whose Poland is it to be? PiS and the struggle between monism and pluralism by Bill, Stanley, Stanley, Ben

“…Since 2015, the Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS) governments in Poland have engineered a revolt against the post-1989 'liberal consensus' and a…”
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Keeping a roof over your head: housing and anti-debt movements in Croatia and Serbia during the Great Recession by Dolenec, Danijela, Kralj, Karlo, Balković, Ana

“…We establish features of political opportunity structures of Croatia and Serbia as parameters that help explain the strategies pursued by housing and anti-debt…”
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Authoritarian footprints in Central and Eastern Europe by Bochsler, Daniel, Juon, Andreas

“…Central and Eastern Europe is the last world region to transition towards democracy. Today, it shows alarming signs of de-consolidation, most prominently in…”
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"Eco-terrorists": right-wing populist media about "ecologists" and the public opinion on the environmental movement in Poland by Żuk, Piotr

“…This article aims to outline the media and thematic framework within which environmentalists were described by the right-wing pro-government media in Poland…”
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Riding the Covid waves: authoritarian socio-economic responses of east central Europe's anti-liberal governments by Bohle, Dorothee, Medve-Bálint, Gergő, Šćepanović, Vera, Toplišek, Alen

“…The extraordinary context of the COVID-19 crisis gave governments around the world a freer hand to reshape their socio-economic orders. Political economists…”
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East Central Europe in the COVID-19 crisis by Bohle, Dorothee, Eihmanis, Edgars

“…This article introduces the Special Issue on Eastern Europe in the COVID-19 crisis. It seeks to shed light on the different and partly worse experiences in…”
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Pandemic power grab by Guasti, Petra, Bustikova, Lenka

“…Is Covid-19 undermining European democracies? Recent scholarship overlooks the fact that most pandemic-related erosions of democracy can be attributed to…”
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Judges as activists: how Polish judges mobilise to defend the rule of law by Matthes, Claudia-Y.

“…What research on democratic backsliding often overlooks is that protest against the decline of rule of law also emerges inside state institutions. In Poland,…”
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