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Eastern Europe: Parties and the mirage of technocracy
Many commentators saw the governments of non-party technocrats formed in Greece and Italy in 2011 as an ill omen for development of party-based democracy in Europe. Established parties, it is suggested, are turning to technocratic caretaker administrations as a device … Continue reading
Posted in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, political parties
Tagged Bulgaria, caretaker, central and eastern europe, Eastern Europe, Greece, hungary, Italy, party government, technocracy, technocrats
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Party government: All we want for Christmas is you…?
At an eye-watering £75 Hans Keman and Ferdinand Müller-Rommel’s new Party Government in the New Europe which came out earlier this year with Routledge is unlikely to have made it to under many people’s Christmas trees this year. It does, … Continue reading
Difficult Hungarian lesson
The constitutional and institutional changes pushed through by Hungary’s ruling conservative-national Fidesz party following its emphatic election victory in April 2010 have attracted increasing coverage – and almost enirely negative - from academic and journalistic observers of Central European politic, … Continue reading
Posted in CEE centre-right, CEE far-right, Hungary
Tagged Bulgaria, central and eastern europe, democracy, Eastern Europe, fidesz, GERB, hungary, Poland, political parties, slovakia
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Populism in Central and Eastern Europe Spectres of moderation?
Radicalism and extremism, especially of the far-right variety, hold an enduring hypnotic fascination for political scientists and journalists. Extremist populism and illiberal movements more generally, we are told, relentlessly on the rise in both Western and Eastern Europe. In countries … Continue reading
Getting the name right?
What do you do if you’re a fading historic right-wing party in a small northern European country with a strong, broadly social-democratic political culture? For the Scottish Conservatives, whose secular decline despite the electoral bounce- back of 2010 in England … Continue reading
Posted in British politics, Bulgaria, CEE centre-right, centre-right, ECR, Estonia, liberalism, ODS, Scotland
Tagged conservatives, Eastern Europe, scotland, sweden, tories
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CEE parties: Gardeners’ World or Jurassic park?
A slow train wends it way through the tower blocks of South London to get me to plusher territory near Runnymede, where Birmingham University’s Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREES) is holding its annual research conference. As ever … Continue reading
