Ethnopopulism is an elite strategy for winning votes and concentrating power–a common
playbook for the erosion of liberal democracy that is empowered and justified by a …

This essay introduces contributions to a special issue of East European Politics on
“Rethinking democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe”, which seeks to expand …

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 …

Scholars are coming to terms with the fact that something is rotten in the new democracies of
Central Europe. The corrosion has multiple symptoms: declining trust in democratic …

“Democracy is a form of government, not a steam bath of popular feelings”(Dahrendorf,
2005: 13). Heretical as these words seemed at a revolutionary moment, they lurked in the …

The radical right in Eastern Europe is similar to its West European cousins in its emphasis
on mobilization against minorities. Until recently, that mobilization was exclusively against …

The more populism enters public debates, the more it needs close scrutiny. Central and
Eastern Europe offers a useful context for exploring the diversity of parties identified as …

Focusing on the rising support for the populist right in Eastern Europe, this book examines
how anger and resentment towards minorities is being utilized in politics. Bustikova details …

Why do some parties live fast and die young, but other endure? And why are some party
systems more stable than others? Based on a blend of data derived from both qualitative …

The article offers insight into the development of democracy in Slovenia, which is
consistently placed among the countries that made the most progress toward consolidated …