scholarly journals Frane Adam, Matej Makarovič, Borut Rončević, Matevž Tomšič: The Challenges of Sustained Development. The Role of Socio-Cultural Factors in East-Central Europe

2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Blaž Lenarčič
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Sustained Development

The Role of Local Political Elites in East Central Europe

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roxana Marin
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Local Leadership ◽  
Developing Region ◽  
Transitional Democracies

How does the elite continue to affect the evolution of local communities in the developing region of former Sovietized Europe? This book is concerned with the issue of local leadership in the countries of East-Central Europe. It is an attempt to examine, with a comparative method, the profile and the role of the local political elites (members of the Municipal Councils) in six towns in six transitional democracies of the region.

Latin in Poland and East-Central Europe: Continuity and Discontinuity

1994 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 305-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerzy Axer ◽  
Maria Bozenna Fedewicz
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Cultural Community ◽  
Main Thesis ◽  
Continuity And Discontinuity

The paper deals with the role of Latin and the whole Latin tradition (Latinitas) in East and Central Europe. The main thesis is that, when viewed from various perspectives, this tradition proves to be an integrating as well as a disintegrating factor in the cultural community of the region. Concluding remarks concern the relevance of the Latin heritage for preservation of the cultural identity in East-Central Europe.

Commentary: In Step with the Times: A Slovak Perspective

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 198-207
Author(s):  
M. Mark Stolarik
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War I ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
North American ◽  
World War ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Times

Paul robert magocsi has written a thought-provoking essay on the role of North American political diasporas from east central Europe before and after the seminal years of 1918 and 1989. While he showed that the pre-1918 diasporas had a major impact on the future of east central Europe during and after World War I, he found very little evidence of a similar impact before and after 1989. He suggested that we look closely at 1989 to see what, if any, impact such diasporas had at the end of the twentieth century.

3. Voting Behaviour

2020 ◽  
pp. 57-78
Author(s):  
Erik Tillman
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Spatial Models ◽  
Voting Behaviour ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Ideological Congruence ◽  
Voting Models

This chapter examines theories and evidence of voting behaviour in Europe. Sociological models examine the role of political cleavages such as class in the development of long-term attachments between parties and voters. Rationalist models examine the sources of short-term changes in voting behaviour with spatial models focusing on the ideological congruence between parties and voters and performance voting models emphasizing evaluations of incumbent records in office. Recent decades have seen debates about a possible realignment of voter loyalties or a dealignment of voter attachments. The final section focuses on how the legacy of communism has structured the development of voting behaviour in East-Central Europe.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 303-316
Author(s):  
Klaus Richter
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
International Project ◽  
Structural Level ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Catastrophic Impact

The conclusion provides an outlook on the role of authoritarian coups and of policies designed to respond to the challenges of the Global Depression in consolidating fragmentation. It argues that the economic, scientific, and social developments outlined in the previous chapters culminated in policies that fully rejected the international project of the pre-war liberal order’s recovery. The catastrophic impact of the Great Depression on East Central Europe made it easier for German revisionists to emphasize the alleged failure of Polish and Baltic projects to integrate their territories. The chapter concludes that interwar political responses to the challenges of fragmentation yielded two seemingly contradictory results: they consolidated East Central Europe’s territorial order at a structural level, but the high frequency of status changes meant that further changes always remained a possibility. The chapter ends with an outlook on the legacy of interwar fragmentation for post-Cold War East Central Europe.

scholarly journals Victimhood as victory: The role of memory politics in the process of de-Europeanisation in East-Central Europe

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Vermeersch
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Eu Enlargement ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Eu

To a large extent, the traditional narrative of EU integration has revolved around reconciliation and peace-building after the Second World War. This article examines how current memory work in nationalist movements in East-Central Europe subverts this moral story and uses it as the basis for a politics of backlash against the EU. Recent developments in national commemoration and remembrance practices in the region have enabled not only the glorification of the national past but also the suppression of 'heretical' interpretations of specific traumatic historical episodes. The fault lines of national belonging are now often used to eclipse stories of post-war state reconciliation in Europe and focus directly on the victimised population. As a result, commemorations carry strong normative and moral overtones related to justice and culpability. Nationalism in this context has received moral connotation and, vice versa, questions of morality become questions of nationhood. The 'we' of this distinguishing work embodies a subject of immaculate historical innocence and victimhood; by extension, the 'others' always bear responsibility and guilt. This nationalist moral classification work changes and reframes the moral underpinnings of the EU enlargement. The victim theme has adhered a strong potential to garner solidarity among various social groups in East-Central Europe against the EU. The role of victimiser is easily projected onto both the abstract notion of the 'European elites' and the supposed allies of those elites: the internal 'others'.

The reinvention of ‘civil society’: transnational conceptions of development in East-Central Europe

2019 ◽  
pp. 55-68
Author(s):  
Agnes Gagyi ◽  
Mariya Ivancheva
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Local Development ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
The Status ◽  
State And Market ◽  
Transnational Solidarity ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores how the notion of ‘civil society’ in East-Central Europe, and the discursive and organisational practices attached to the term, have been deployed in politics, and how this has affected how local development and empowerment are conceived and funded. In this respect, struggles over the meaning and practice of ‘civil society’ activism in the region speak to longstanding debates within the community development field relating to the role of state and market; the status, function, and relevance of professionalised organisations within communities; the relationship between political and economic freedoms; and the possibilities for meaningful transnational solidarity.

scholarly journals The Role of Innovation and Human Factor in the Development of East Central Europe

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 251-274
Author(s):  
Arnold Tóth ◽  
Tímea Juhász ◽  
Botond Kálmán
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Human Factor ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central
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