East European Politics

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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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...

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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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In defence of democracy: parliamentary opposition and democratic resilience in Poland The 2023 electoral victory of Poland's liberal opposition halted democratic backsliding and exemplified democratic resilience. This study provides a novel empirical analysis of discursive strategie...

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Uninformed or informed populists? The relationship between political knowledge, socio-economic status and populist attitudes in Poland This article uses data from the 2015 Polish parliamentary election to test the relationship between political knowledge, socio-economic status and populist attitudes. Recent scholarship has challen...

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Corruption experience does not make voters harsher towards the corrupt incumbents – evidence from a survey experiment in Poland This study investigates the linkage between the experience of petty corruption and a more harsh stance on corruption scandals. A randomised vignette experiment in Poland tests how people tend to co...

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Opposition and resistance: how judges and professional associations in Poland, Hungary, and Romania defend their independence This article investigates how governmental measures aimed at dismantling core liberal democracy principles prompt judges and their professional associations to action. In what ways do they express ...

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Comparing public attitudes towards internal and external EU sanctions: the role of populism, trust and Euroscepticism Do Europeans think about EU sanctions against member states and third countries in the same way? The EU regularly uses economic sanctions against third countries to promote democracy. Yet today wit...

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Puppets of the president? Prime ministers in post-communist Romania With sixteen Prime Ministers (PMs) in thirty years, Romania seems to fit well in the Central and Eastern European pattern of countries with “weak” heads of party governments. This article aims at c...

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