scholarly journals What is to be Done? Framings of Urban Populism in Prague and Warsaw

2021 ◽  
Vol XXII (2021) ◽  
pp. 40-62
Author(s):  
Connor O’Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
National Level ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Extensive Field ◽  
Urban Movements ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Municipal Level

Resurgent populism in East Central Europe is typically analyzed at the national level. This paper examines populist urban movements in two of the region’s capital cities: Prague and Warsaw. It locates the origin of urban populist grievances in the crisis of urban-planning regimes after communism. At the same time, it argues that the character of populist urban movements, in terms of their mobilizing frames and tactics, varies between cities depending on the openness of municipal institutions to new social actors. The research draws on extensive field interviews, policy documents, academic analyses, and domestic media reports. It sheds light on an under-studied variant of postcommunist populism—one less conservative and potentially more inclusive—and contributes to the literatures on postcommunist civil society, urban planning, and municipal-level politics.

scholarly journals Dependent versus state-permeated capitalism: two basic options for emerging markets

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 269-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Nölke
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
National Level ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Analytical Instruments ◽  
Comparative Capitalism ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
Market Capitalism

Abstract Can comparative capitalism (CC) assist us in understanding both the rise and the current challenges of emerging market capitalism? This article applies analytical instruments developed in CC scholarship on emerging markets to address this question. During the last two decades, CC scholarship – defined by common features such as the emphasis on institutional contexts that are sticky and most important at the national level – has evolved considerably. This contribution to the third generation of this scholarship highlights the degree of international economic integration as the central strategic choice to be faced by emerging economies. It does so by systematically comparing dependent market economies of East Central Europe with the state-permeated economies of China, India and Brazil. The core finding is that both types of capitalism have been able to mobilize substantial institutional complementarities during the last three decades but will face considerable economic and political challenges in the years ahead.

Transnational Culture and the Political Transformation of East-Central Europe

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Brier
Keyword(s):  
National Level ◽  
New Democracies ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
General Direction ◽  
East Central ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Democracy Building ◽  
The Impact

In social scientific studies of Europe’s new democracies, there has emerged an analytical approach which transcends the teleology of ‘transitology’ and, focusing on the impact of culture and history, is sensitive to the contingencies and ‘eventfulness’ of social transformations. The main thrust of this article is that such a culturo-historical approach may prove useful not only in assessing the different results to which the processes of democratization lead at the national level, but also to assess the general direction of political change after 1989 towards democracy. Building on Eisenstadt’s notion of modernity as a cultural and political program, this article therefore attempts to understand the revolutions of 1989 not only as the mere sum of particular national events, but also as part of an ‘entangled history’, that is, as a common, transnational phenomenon which was based on and articulated a shared cultural understanding.

scholarly journals El estado del planeamiento urbanístico municipal en España: análisis de los instrumentos vigentes y de los municipios sin planeamiento = Municipal urban planning in Spain: analysis of current instruments and municipalities without planning

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo De Santiago Rodríguez ◽  
Isabel González García
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
National Level ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Autonomous Communities ◽  
Municipal Planning ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
Rural Municipalities ◽  
Municipal Level

Este texto analiza las figuras vigentes de planeamiento urbanístico a nivel municipal en España, a partir de la información disponible en el Sistema de Información Urbana del Ministerio de Fomento (2018), complementada con la explotación de los Inventarios de Planeamiento de 1976 y 1992, hasta ahora inéditos. Se parte de un repaso de la legislación a nivel estatal y autonómico en la que se revisan las figuras de planeamiento que se contemplan en cada caso y sus principales contenidos. Después se analiza la evolución del planeamiento municipal de la etapa democrática, examinando 3 momentos históricos, coincidentes con la aprobación de las leyes de suelo de 1976 y 1992 y el presente, en que se cumplen 20 años desde la ley de 1998 y 10 desde la de 2008. La situación actual se estudia tanto a nivel agregado nacional como desglosada por tipologías municipales, Comunidades Autónomas y provincias, con especial atención a los municipios sin planeamiento. Se concluye haciendo una reflexión sobre los principales problemas derivados de la ausencia de planeamiento urbanístico en los pequeños municipios rurales.Abstract:This paper analyzes the existing urban planning instruments at the municipal level in Spain, based on the information available in the SIU (Urban Information System) of the Ministry of Public Works. The paper starts with a brief review of the legislation in force at national and regional levels, examining the planning instruments contemplated in each case and their main contents. The evolution of Spanish municipal planning during the democratic stage is also presented, examining 3 historical moments, coinciding with the approval of the Land Acts of 1976 and 1992 and the present 2018, 20 years since the 1998 law and 10 since the 2008 law. The current situation is studied both aggregated at national level and disaggregated by municipal typologies, Autonomous Communities, and provinces, paying special attention to municipalities without any sort of planning instrument. The conclusions reflect on the main problems arising from the absence of planning in small rural municipalities.

TACKLING INFORMAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE: FROM A DETERRENCE TO PREVENTATIVE APPROACH

2021 ◽  
pp. 2050024
Author(s):  
COLIN C. WILLIAMS
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Informal Sector ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Central European ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Preventative Measures ◽  
Informal Entrepreneurship ◽  
East Central European ◽  
Preventative Approach

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of two contrasting policy approaches in tackling informal sector entrepreneurship. The dominant deterrence approach theorizes entrepreneurs as rational economic actors who operate in the informal sector when the benefits of doing so outweigh the costs. The resultant policy focus is upon deterring participation by increasing the costs of operating in the informal sector through increased penalties and probability of being caught. Recently, a more preventative approach has emerged theorizing entrepreneurs as social actors operating in the informal sector when there is a lack of vertical trust (in government) and horizontal trust (in others). The consequent policy focus is upon improving entrepreneurs’ vertical trust (in the state) and horizontal trust (in each other). To evaluate these approaches, evidence is reported from a 2019 Eurobarometer survey in six East-Central European countries (Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Slovakia). The finding is that participation in informal entrepreneurship is not significantly associated with the deterrent measures of raising the penalties and probability of being caught but is significantly associated with the preventative measures of improving vertical and horizontal trust. The implications for theory and policy are discussed.

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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