This paper aims to explain the key dynamics underlying the Justice and Development
Party's (AKP) recent authoritarian consolidation efforts in Turkey from a critical political …

With rare exception, political economists assume that developmental policies and
developmental alliances between states and business result from top-down, state co-option …

Abortion, same-sex marriage, gender equality, and LGBTQ rights have become hotly
contested topics in Central Europe over the past two decades. Abortion rights have been …

Has a post-neoliberal policy regime emerged from the challenges to neoliberalism that have
accompanied the rise of nationalism and populism in some Eastern and Central European …

Studies of the Global Right usually trace its intellectual underpinnings to the revolutionary
conservative New Right and its ideas claiming to defend an 'ethno-pluralist'European …

This article contributes to the emerging studies of populist radical right parties' social policies
by looking at two cases, Italy and Poland, where such parties have been in office without the …

Right-wing populist parties who obtain governmental power rely on ethno-nationalist
mobilization for domestic legitimacy. They may therefore adopt policies that explicitly seek to …

The 2008 financial crisis allowed for the rising power of China to expand deeper into more
(semi-) peripheral regions: in the past decade, the role of China and Chinese SOEs has …

The paper explores the long-term trajectory and the recent acceleration of the conflict over
the rule of law in the EU. It focusses on the motivation of the two governments in Hungary …

While interest in illiberalism has increased in recent years, the study of the connections
between anti-gender discourse and transnational dissemination is a more recent scholarly …