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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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Left with questions
I’m at conference on the Future of the Left in Central Europe in Prague co-organised by CESTA, one of the Czech Republic’s few centre-left thinktanks, and the German SPD’s Ebert Foundation, having been to an academic workshop on a similar … Continue reading
Posted in Czech Republic, Hungary, left-wing politics, political parties
Tagged CESTA, CSSD, Czech Republic, FES, hungary, left, LMP, Poland, political parties, political science, slovakia, Smer, social democracy, Visgrad
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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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