East European Politics

There are such people: the role of corruption in the 2021 parliamentary elections in Bulgaria Voters often express a dislike for corruption, yet on election day, they still vote for corrupt politicians. While existing research highlights the impact of information and concern about corruptio...

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Juggling friends and foes: Prime Minister Borissov’s surprise survival in Bulgaria Prime Ministers (PMs) in Central and Eastern Europe have been relatively weak, although substantial variation in the survival both within and across countries exists. In Bulgaria, Boyko Borissov ca...

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Vicarious denial: war crimes and online deliberation in Serbia for and against Ukraine Violence in distant conflicts can foster solidarity across borders, mediated by partisanship, identities, and ideology. But, attitudes towards a society’s own war legacies may also shape reactions ...

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Pro-Ukrainian social mobilisation in Hungary: solidarity in the shadow of the Hungarian government's Janus-faced communication The role of language in shaping socio-political realities suggests that narratives disseminated by governments strongly influence public opinion. This article addresses if and how the Hungarian gov...

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New in @eepolitics.bsky.social! In Albania, anti-communism fuels far-right normalization—even under continuous Socialist Party rule—by reframing WWII, delegitimizing the anti-fascist tradition, and rehabilitating collaborators. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KNMWG...

Vicarious denial: war crimes and online deliberation in Serbia for and against Ukraine Violence in distant conflicts can foster solidarity across borders, mediated by partisanship, identities, and ideology. But, attitudes towards a society’s own war legacies may also shape reactions ...

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Thin but visible: the role of populist attitudes and their subdimensions in populist support within the 2021 Czech legislative election Are populist attitudes too thin to matter for populist support? Considering their interplay with thick nativist attitudes, we argue that both populist attitudes and their subdimensions play a key r...

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Understanding the illiberal turn: democratic backsliding in the Czech Republic* Democratic backsliding in Central Europe has so far been most acute in Hungary and Poland, states once considered frontrunners in democratisation. In this paper, we explore to what extent developme...

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Whose skin is in the game? Party candidates in the Czech Republic Party candidates are the essence of parties. They represent parties in public and importantly, bring them into office and power. Thus, I track more than 150,000 personally unique local elections pa...

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The “refugee crisis” and the transformation of the far right and the political mainstream: the extreme case of the Czech Republic The effects of the so-called “refugee crisis” seem to be particularly pronounced in Central and Eastern Europe. However, its impact has rarely been systematically analyzed in this particular region...

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Europe forever? Czech political parties on the orientation of Czech foreign policy The foreign policy orientation of Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries has been changing in recent years. Countries which were, since the 1990s, oriented towards structures such as NATO or ...

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Czech political parties and the war in Ukraine: continuity of foreign policy stances The paper analyses the foreign policy preference of Czech political parties in the context of the 2021 elections and the war in Ukraine. The authors question whether the war in Ukraine functioned a...

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A digital party organisation? Evolution of the Czech Pirates We examine the digital party model using the Czech Pirates as a case study. The party was initially organised through an online platform and characterised by ad-hoc, informal decision-making. Howev...

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Memory activism and the victimhood paradox in Bosnia and Herzegovina: commemorating the “War Child” in the resistance against ethnic nationalism Noting the conceptual malleability and the historically opposed political uses of victimhood, this article analyses the strategies deployed to navigate the “victimhood paradox” in two cases of memo...

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East European Politics Theorizing Cooperation and Conflict in Euro-Russian Relations. Volume 36, Issue 4 of East European Politics

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From parish to parliament: resources and alliances of anti-gender movements in Southeast Europe This article explores the emergence of anti-gender mobilisation in Southeast Europe with a comparative case study of Bulgaria, Croatia, and Serbia. I employ a most similar systems design to explain...

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Ukrainian public opinion and the path to peace with Russia A central question in the Russo-Ukrainian war is under what circumstances Ukraine will make territorial concessions in order to end the war. Ukrainian public opinion will be a crucial factor. Initi...

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From street protests to everyday life: politicisation of the Belarusian society after the 2020–2021 National Awakening This article discusses the politicisation of everyday life in post-2020 Belarus following the suppression of the anti-authoritarian protests. Drawing on visual analysis, it shows that different for...

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"From street protests to everyday life: politicisation of the Belarusian society after the 2020–2021 National Awakening"

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👌NEW article: 'Development of new party support in post-communist Europe and the effect of the 2008 economic crisis' by Lukáš Linek & Michael Škvrňák (@czechacademy.bsky.social)👉 doi.org/10.1080/2159... ✨

Generational dynamics of political trust and satisfaction in Czechia: the enduring impact of political socialisation during socialism The article examines how exposure to socialism shapes political attitudes and how the fall of the Iron Curtain affected political socialisation across generations in Czechia, while exploring the in...

🧠 Can the shadow of socialism still shape how we trust our governments today?
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Uncorking Europeanisation: the resilient journey of small Georgian winemakers in the pursuit of the EU market This article examines how Georgian wine producers respond to EU export standards and how they perceive them. What role does the Europeanisation process play in shaping their resilience through adap...

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