Declining Democracy in East-Central Europe: The Divide in the EU and Emerging Hard Populism

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The dramatic decline of democracy in East-Central Europe has attracted great interest world-wide. Going beyond the narrow spectrum of the extensive literature on this topic, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of ECE region - Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia - from system...

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Main Author: Ágh, Attila 1941- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire Edward Elgar Publishing Limited 2019
In:Year: 2019
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Democracy-Europe, Eastern
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Ostmitteleuropa > Demokratie > Populismus
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary:The dramatic decline of democracy in East-Central Europe has attracted great interest world-wide. Going beyond the narrow spectrum of the extensive literature on this topic, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of ECE region - Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia - from systemic change in 1989 to 2019 to explain the reasons of the collapse of ECE democratic systems in the 2010s.
Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: From democracy decline to democracy renewal -- PART I Europeanization and democratization of ECE in the Old World Order -- 1. Systemic change in the Old World Order -- 2. Socio-economic transition and social disintegration -- 3. Political transition and the crisis of representative democracy -- PART II The collapse of ECE democracies in the New World Order -- 4. The New World Order and the desecuritization process in ECE -- 5. The failure of catching up and the credibility crisis in ECE -- 6. The rise of hard populism and the collapse of democracy in ECE -- 7. The ECE political system: Velvet dictatorship with façade democracy -- 8. ECE regional politics and the increasing core-periphery divide -- 9. The civilizational crisis in the ECE region -- Postscript: Democracy renewal and alternatives for redemocratization -- References -- Index.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (314 pages)
ISBN:978-1-78897-473-8