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: 87
2012
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Populism from the point of view of extremism research
Year: 2012, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Populist Political Parties in East-Central Europe
Year: 2012, edition: 1. vyd., number of pages: 280 s.
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Populisté, protestní strany, outsideři? Několik poznámek ke konceptualizaci populistických politických stran
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Slowakische rechtsradikale Organisationen seit 1990
Handbuch des Antisemitismus. Judenfeindschaft in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Band 5. Organisationen, Institutionen, Bewegungen., edition: Vyd. 1., year: 2012, number of pages: 3 s.
2011
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Demokratieschutz in Europa
Year: 2011, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Islamismus jako bezpečnostní hrozba pro Českou republiku
Vojenské rozhledy, year: 2011, volume: 20 (52), edition: 4
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Politické systémy
Year: 2011, number of pages: 292 s.