Project information
Contemporary challenges of democracy in East Central Europe
- Project Identification
- GAP408/11/0709
- Project Period
- 1/2011 - 12/2015
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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Czech Science Foundation
- Standard Projects
- MU Faculty or unit
- Faculty of Social Studies
- Keywords
- East Central Europe; Democracy; Democratization; deficits of democracy in posttransition
East-Central Europe (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia) has undergone processes of democratic consolidation and Europeanization. At the same time, politics in these countries faces original (both autochthonic and external) challenges and threats to democracy, only some of which are traceable to the communist past. These dangers include political extremism and violence, corruption, ethnic and religious conflicts, immigration and organized crime, as well as non-democratic defects of development in the region’s neighbouring countries. These phenomena have considerable influence over politics in East-Central Europe, and their consequences are evident both in the polity and politics dimensions. It is precisely inquiry into specific, area-typical forms of these challenges to democracy in East-Central Europe
and their theoretical reflection that constitute the crux of this project. It thus draws and builds upon existing research dealing with the issue of embeddedness and transformation of democracy under diverse cultural-civilizational conditions.
Publications
Total number of publications: 86
2013
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A populist challenge to Czech party politics? The Public Affairs political party and its voters in the 2010 parliamentary election
Year: 2013, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Against corruption and political dinosaurs. The Public Affairs Party and the new wave of populism in the Czech Republic
Year: 2013, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Cas Mudde and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser: Populism in Europe and the Americas. Threat or corrective for democracy? (book review)
East European Politics, year: 2013, volume: 29, edition: online, DOI
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Collective Singularity of Institutionalized and Non-Institutionalized Anti-Racist Action. Case Study of the Czech Republic.
Year: 2013, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Conceptualizing New Forms of Separatism in Europe
Year: 2013, type:
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Czech political parties, their functions and performance: Assessing Czech party politics
Scientia et Societas, year: 2013, volume: IX, edition: 1
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Democratisation of Democracy? On the Discontinuity Between Empirical and Normative Theories of Democracy
Representation, year: 2013, volume: 49, edition: 2, DOI
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Demokracie, konstitucionalismus a lidská práva
Demokratizace a lidská práva. Středoevropské pohledy, edition: Vyd. 1., year: 2013, number of pages: 21 s.
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Demokratizace a lidská práva z pohledu výzkumu mezinárodních vztahů
Demokratizace a lidská práva. Středoevropské pohledy, year: 2013, number of pages: 32 s.
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Demokratizace a lidská práva. Středoevropské pohledy
Year: 2013, edition: Vyd. 1., number of pages: 266 s.