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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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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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First-time voters and honest political leaders: evidence from the 2019 presidential election in Romania Voters favour some personal characteristics of political leaders over others. So far, we know little about why honesty is one of these characteristics. This article identifies what makes first-time...

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Weak pluralism and shallow democracy: the rise of identity politics in Bulgaria and Romania The rise of identity politics has been surprising in two countries that have benefitted extensively from EU membership. To address the puzzle, the paper suggests that the EU vision of common and in...

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The opportunities and constraints of successful heresthetical strategies: attitudes, identities, and the framing of the Russian-Ukrainian war in Hungary Heresthetic and emphasis framing are essential techniques for inducing and shaping public opinion in political communication. The results of a public opinion survey experiment (N = 1000) show that ...

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Russia’s “conservative turn” after 2012: evidence from the European Social Survey Russian politics is often described as having taken a “conservative turn” since the start of Putin's third term. This refers to the rise in the political influence of the Russian Orthodox Church, t...

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Elite defection and opposition realignment in Hungary: Respect and Freedom Party (TISZA) in the 2024 European Parliamentary elections The 2024 European Parliamentary elections yielded an opposition landslide in Hungary. Respect and Freedom (TISZA), a genuinely new party led by a Fidesz defector, emerged as Orbán's unequivocal cha...

indeed, TISZA is more pro-European and pro-Ukraine than Fidesz, as I show it in my paper @eepolitics.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1080/2159.... Nevetherless, it shares the challenge of many centrist anti-establishment parties: being supported by an ideologically heterogeneous coalition of protest voters

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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“Eco-terrorists”: right-wing populist media about “ecologists” and the public opinion on the environmental movement in Poland This article aims to outline the media and thematic framework within which environmentalists were described by the right-wing pro-government media in Poland from 2016 to 2020 and to explain the mai...

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Elite defection and opposition realignment in Hungary: Respect and Freedom Party (TISZA) in the 2024 European Parliamentary elections The 2024 European Parliamentary elections yielded an opposition landslide in Hungary. Respect and Freedom (TISZA), a genuinely new party led by a Fidesz defector, emerged as Orbán's unequivocal cha...

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The unusual weakness of the economic agenda at protests in times of austerity: the case of Serbia The Great Recession of 2008 created a political opportunity for the mobilisation of various social groups, especially those most affected by the crisis. However, the two largest protest waves in Se...

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Public scepticism of internationally supported civil society organisations: norms, citizen priorities, and local groups in post-socialist Serbia Despite decades of Western assistance seeking to develop civil societies in the countries of the former Yugoslavia, many local non-governmental organisations (NGOs) lack strong bases in their socie...

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Contesting the EU on the periphery in times of crisis: party-based Euroscepticism in Serbia This article examines how Eurosceptic parties in Serbia framed the issue of “Europe” in their discourse during times of crisis. It identifies three main frames through which the EU has been problem...

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Between justice and stability: the politics of war crimes prosecutions in post-Milošević Serbia Published in East European Politics (Vol. 34, No. 2, 2018)

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