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 …

Through a global comparative approach, Amy Sodaro uses in-depth case studies of five
exemplary memorial museums that commemorate a range of violent pasts and allow for a …

The essay identifies two main dangers to East Central Europe's young democracies:'
hollowing,'or declining popular involvement in democracy, and 'backsliding,'or …

This paper discusses a new group of parties that we term anti-establishment reform parties
(AERPs), which combine moderate social and economic policies with anti-establishment …

Focusing on the critical Hungarian case, this article analyses the fate of embedded
neoliberal capitalism in the wake of the global financial crisis. The changes include policies …

A state-of-the-art assessment of welfare provision, policy and reform at national and at EU
level which spans the whole of Europe-East, West and Central. Uniquely broad-ranging in …

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STATES - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the 21st Century Page 2 Comparative Politics and …

This article focuses on two cases of the European Union (EU)'s efforts to promote its values
and norms in its immediate neighbourhood, first in central and eastern Europe after the fall …

In Hungary, as in all of" new Europe," liberalization is troubled. Using Hungary as an in-
depth case study, Korkut demonstrates that, in squandering popular goodwill, credibility, and …

As a consequence of the global financial crisis, many observers expected that the European
Union would initiate and spur the reform of global finance. However, it turned out that the …