scholarly journals Political mobilization in East Central Europe

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulf Brunnbauer ◽  
Peter Haslinger
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Illiberal Democracy ◽  
Thematic Section ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

This article provides an introduction to the special thematic section on political mobilization in East Central Europe. Based on a brief presentation of the main arguments of the individual articles, the authors discuss the recent political volatility in East Central Europe. They highlight the tension between fierce political rhetoric and populist policies on the one hand, and low levels of voter turnout and overall political participation in the region on the other. The authors argue that recent cases of successful as well as unsuccessful political mobilization in East Central Europe point to structural re-alignments in the region's political landscape. In particular, the parties that are successful are those that manage to communicate their visions in new ways and whose messages resonate with nested attitudes and preferences of the electorate. These parties typically rally against the so-called establishment and claim for themselves an anti-hegemonic agenda. The introductory essay also asserts that these developments in East Central Europe deserve attention for their potential Europe-wide repercussions – especially the idea of “illiberal democracy,”which combines populist mobilization and autocratic demobilization and finds adherents also in more established European democracies.

scholarly journals New Chronological Frame for the Young Neolithic Baden Culture in Central Europe (4th Millennium BC)

Radiocarbon ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 43 (2B) ◽  
pp. 1057-1064 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Maria Wild ◽  
Peter Stadler ◽  
Mária Bondár ◽  
Susanne Draxler ◽  
Herwig Friesinger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Southeast Europe ◽  
Data Set ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Radiocarbon Data ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Comparison Of The Results ◽  
East West ◽  
Age Determinations

The Baden Culture is a widely spread culture of the Young Neolithics in east-central Europe. In southeast Europe, several parallel cultures are found at different places. The main innovations in east-central Europe associated with the Baden Culture were traditionally thought to originate in southeast Europe, Anatolia, and the Levant. However, in recent years, doubt about this theory has arisen among archaeologists.Here, we try to contribute to this question by increasing the radiocarbon data set available for the Baden Culture. Thirty-two age determinations of samples from different sites assigned to the Baden Culture were performed by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) 14C dating. The new data were combined with previously published 14C dates. Data from the individual cultural phases of the entire Baden period and the parallel cultures in southeast Europe (Sitagroi, Cernavoda, and Ezero) were analyzed by sum calibration. Comparison of the results indicates that the southeastern cultures cannot be synchronized with the Boleráz period, the early phase of the Baden Culture. It seems that these cultures were parallel to the Baden Classical period. This finding, which has to be verified by more data from the southeastern cultures, contradicts the theory of the east-west spreading of these cultures.

scholarly journals Illiberal Trends and Anti-EU Politics in East Central Europe: Major Findings and Avenues for Future Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 323-347
Author(s):  
Astrid Lorenz ◽  
Lisa H. Anders
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Future Research ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
The Individual

Abstract This concluding chapter summarises central findings of the volume and discusses avenues for future research. It first presents the insights of the individual chapters and demonstrates for each part of the book how the chapters speak to each other. It then highlights selected key findings, discusses theoretical implications more generally and identifies questions and subject areas for future research.

Ezra Mendelsohn. The Jews of East Central Europe Between the World Wars. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1983. Pp. xvi, 300.

2004 ◽  
pp. 379-382
Author(s):  
Jerzy Tomaszewski
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
East Central ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Governmental Politics ◽  
Comparative Manner

This chapter looks at Ezra Mendelsohn's The Jews of East Central Europe Between the World Wars (1983). The book is divided into chapters dedicated to the individual countries: Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Lithuania, with a single chapter on Latvia and Estonia. This does not mean that it is a collection of separate studies that could equally well stand alone. To the book's great advantage, Mendelsohn often approaches his subject — Jewish communities in these countries, governmental politics, and patterns of change — in a comparative manner. As a result, and despite the initial impression, the book constitutes a logical whole and is thus all the more useful. The author's interest lies mainly in the area of specifically Jewish history.

scholarly journals East-Central Europe in the Writing of James Clarence Mangan

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-26
Author(s):  
Sinéad Sturgeon
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Politics Of Identity ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Central European ◽  
East European ◽  
European Culture ◽  
The One ◽  
East Central European

Abstract This study explores the significance of East-Central Europe in a range of James Clarence Mangan’s poetry and prose from 1838–1847, focusing particularly on his depiction of Biedermeier Vienna (in the short story “The Man in the Cloak”), revolutionary uprisings in Poland and Albania (in the poems “Siberia” and “Song of the Albanian”), and his translations from the work of Bohemian-born Viennese poet Joseph Christian Freiherr von Zedlitz (1790–1862). I argue that Mangan’s interest in this region is twofold. On the one hand, it stems from the amenability of East-Central European culture and writing to the themes and tropes of the gothic, a genre central to Mangan’s imagination; on the other, from an underlying affinity in the historical position of the Irish and East-European poet in negotiating complex and contested politics of identity. While Mangan is a poet keenly conscious of “the importance of elsewhere,” and closely engaged in contemporary continental politics, I suggest that these European elsewheres also function as Foucauldian heterotopias, mythopoetic mirrors that enable the poet both to participate in Irish cultural nationalism and to register his dissent and distance from it.

scholarly journals Democracy revisited? Prospects of (liberal) democracy (not only) in the East-Central Europe

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 793-814
Author(s):  
Ladislav Cabada
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Democratic Development ◽  
Illiberal Democracy ◽  
The Social ◽  
State Capture ◽  
Hybrid Regime

Abstract Scholarly debate about the prospects of democracy have undergone a fundamental change in the last three decades. While the period of the 1990s might be distinguished by extensive optimism, in the 2000s we can observe a distinct change towards a more restrained perception. Furthermore, the last decade might be evaluated as pessimistic in the social sciences on the grounds of economic recession after 2008 as well other crisis in an economic, societal and political senses. The rather distinctive terms used for the expression of doubts about the pro-democratic development and consolidation, such as ‘semi-consolidated’, ‘new’ or ‘young’ democracy, or de-democratisation, were replaced with more dramatic expressions such as illiberal democracy, democratic backsliding, hybrid, regime, soft dictatorship and ‘the light that failed’, as Krastev described the recent image of East-Central Europe in an almost dystopic manner. While in the 1990s the Slovak version of democratura – Mečiarism – was perceived as the exception, in the late 2010s populist neo-illiberal regimes became the dominant shape of regimes in (East)Central Europe. This review essay presents three recent analyses of the democratic backsliding and state capture (not only) in East-Central Europe and frames this presentation into the more extensive literature review.

Considering the Sub-Regional Cooperation in East-Central Europe – Some Conclusions on Integrating and Disintegrating Tendencies in the Sub-Regional Dialogue

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacek Wieclawski
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Ukrainian Crisis ◽  
Regional Interests ◽  
Visegrad Group ◽  
East Central European

This article discusses the problems of the sub-regional cooperation in East-Central Europe. It formulates the general conclusions and examines the specific case of the Visegrad Group as the most advanced example of this cooperation. The article identifies the integrating and disintegrating tendencies that have so far accompanied the sub-regional dialogue in East-Central Europe. Yet it claims that the disintegrating impulses prevail over the integrating impulses. EastCentral Europe remains diversified and it has not developed a single platform of the sub-regional dialogue. The common experience of the communist period gives way to the growing difference of the sub-regional interests and the ability of the East-Central European members to coordinate their positions in the European Union is limited. The Visegrad Group is no exception in this regard despite its rich agenda of social and cultural contacts. The Russian-Ukrainian conflict confirms a deep divergence of interests among the Visegrad states that seems more important for the future of the Visegrad cooperation than the recent attempts to mark the Visegrad unity in the European refugee crisis. Finally, the Ukrainian crisis and the strengthening of the NATO’s “Eastern flank” may contribute to some new ideas of the sub-regional cooperation in East-Central Europe, to include the Polish-Baltic rapprochement or the closer dialogue between Poland and Romania. Full text available at: https://doi.org/10.22215/rera.v10i1.251  

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