East European Politics

This analysis of Georgia’s authoritarian turn shows how autocratisation is reinforced by the return of geopolitics. Leaders act as gatekeepers constructing storylines that connect broader geopolitical phenomena to local politics and use them for legitimacy-building & repression

Geopolitics and autocratisation in hybrid regimes: the case of Georgia This article explains how incumbents in hybrid regimes use geopolitics to strengthen regime durability. It develops two autocratisation strategies: declarative Europeanisation, a deliberate tool th...

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Changes in radical right’s security and defence policy position: the case of Sweden democrats, 2022 Although scholarship on security and defence policy of radical right parties (RRPs) is growing, limited attention has been paid to why some RRPs change their positions and geopolitical orientations...

Glad to say that @eepolitics.bsky.social just published my article on how Sweden Democrats changed their security and defence position, specifically, their stance on NATO membership, just months before the Swedish general election in 2022: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Predicting budget robustness of Ukrainian local self-government during Russia’s war against Ukraine Russia’s war against Ukraine constitutes a severe multi-aspect challenge for Ukraine’s economy. Existing studies stress the positive role the 2014 decentralisation reform in Ukraine has had in comb...

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(Anti)corruption and conditionality in the geopolitical enlargement: Ukraine’s EU accession in comparative perspective Since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, geostrategic urgency has revived EU enlargement, raising fears that speed may erode conditionality. This article argues instead that Ukraine's accession pat...

I have a new article out, which unfortunately isn't open-access, but the publisher is offering 50 free eprints!

The article dispels the common myth that Ukraine is too corrupt to join the EU. It shows that Ukrainian corruption is average...
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When do voters with left-wing economic views support populist radical right parties?

Many supporters of 🇵🇱 PiS are left-authoritarians (left-wing econ & authoritarian socio-cult views)... 1/4 👇

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The relationship between hope and societal stability in Kosovo Dashed hope leads to potentially destabilising anger. I highlight examples of the link between dashed hope and anger/unrest in Kosovo, before focusing on the post-independence period. The hopes rai...

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Condoning postwar corruption: how legacies of war prevent democratic accountability in contemporary Southeast Europe Do voters in postwar societies punish corrupt politicians? Or are their electoral preferences distorted by their own or the candidates’ war pasts? We answer these questions by analysing the results...

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There are such people: the role of corruption in the 2021 parliamentary elections in Bulgaria Voters often express a dislike for corruption, yet on election day, they still vote for corrupt politicians. While existing research highlights the impact of information and concern about corruptio...

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Juggling friends and foes: Prime Minister Borissov’s surprise survival in Bulgaria Prime Ministers (PMs) in Central and Eastern Europe have been relatively weak, although substantial variation in the survival both within and across countries exists. In Bulgaria, Boyko Borissov ca...

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Vicarious denial: war crimes and online deliberation in Serbia for and against Ukraine Violence in distant conflicts can foster solidarity across borders, mediated by partisanship, identities, and ideology. But, attitudes towards a society’s own war legacies may also shape reactions ...

💡New & #FREE article 'Vicarious denial: war crimes and online deliberation in #Serbia for and against #Ukraine' by @denisakost.bsky.social ( @lse-ei.bsky.social ) & @lanabi.bsky.social ( @lsemethodology.bsky.social ) 🇷🇸🇺🇦 @adamfagan.bsky.social @lenkabustikova.bsky.social @andreapirro.it

Pro-Ukrainian social mobilisation in Hungary: solidarity in the shadow of the Hungarian government's Janus-faced communication The role of language in shaping socio-political realities suggests that narratives disseminated by governments strongly influence public opinion. This article addresses if and how the Hungarian gov...

New article💡'Pro- #Ukrainian social mobilisation in #Hungary: solidarity in the shadow of the Hungarian government's Janus-faced communication' by @karin-kvr-slyms.bsky.social & Jiri Nemec of @masarykuniversity.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1080/2159...

New in @eepolitics.bsky.social! In Albania, anti-communism fuels far-right normalization—even under continuous Socialist Party rule—by reframing WWII, delegitimizing the anti-fascist tradition, and rehabilitating collaborators. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KNMWG...

Vicarious denial: war crimes and online deliberation in Serbia for and against Ukraine Violence in distant conflicts can foster solidarity across borders, mediated by partisanship, identities, and ideology. But, attitudes towards a society’s own war legacies may also shape reactions ...

👇 NEW ARTICLE with @Lanabi_la_Lova: We analyse cross border dynamics of war crimes denial. Attitudes to in-group's past wars & accountability explain selective solidarity with victims of distant conflicts. @lse-ei.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @eepolitics.bsky.social tinyurl.com/b4sum24y

NEW! The public opinion effects of antisemitic elite cues: a survey experiment on the Hungarian Soros campaign in @eepolitics.bsky.social w/ @bencehamrak.bsky.social @erinjenne.bsky.social G.Simonovits. Soros cues worked through partisan motivated reasoning & not antisemitism doi.org/10.1080/2159...

Thin but visible: the role of populist attitudes and their subdimensions in populist support within the 2021 Czech legislative election Are populist attitudes too thin to matter for populist support? Considering their interplay with thick nativist attitudes, we argue that both populist attitudes and their subdimensions play a key r...

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Understanding the illiberal turn: democratic backsliding in the Czech Republic* Democratic backsliding in Central Europe has so far been most acute in Hungary and Poland, states once considered frontrunners in democratisation. In this paper, we explore to what extent developme...

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Whose skin is in the game? Party candidates in the Czech Republic Party candidates are the essence of parties. They represent parties in public and importantly, bring them into office and power. Thus, I track more than 150,000 personally unique local elections pa...

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The “refugee crisis” and the transformation of the far right and the political mainstream: the extreme case of the Czech Republic The effects of the so-called “refugee crisis” seem to be particularly pronounced in Central and Eastern Europe. However, its impact has rarely been systematically analyzed in this particular region...

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Europe forever? Czech political parties on the orientation of Czech foreign policy The foreign policy orientation of Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries has been changing in recent years. Countries which were, since the 1990s, oriented towards structures such as NATO or ...

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Czech political parties and the war in Ukraine: continuity of foreign policy stances The paper analyses the foreign policy preference of Czech political parties in the context of the 2021 elections and the war in Ukraine. The authors question whether the war in Ukraine functioned a...

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A digital party organisation? Evolution of the Czech Pirates We examine the digital party model using the Czech Pirates as a case study. The party was initially organised through an online platform and characterised by ad-hoc, informal decision-making. Howev...

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Memory activism and the victimhood paradox in Bosnia and Herzegovina: commemorating the “War Child” in the resistance against ethnic nationalism Noting the conceptual malleability and the historically opposed political uses of victimhood, this article analyses the strategies deployed to navigate the “victimhood paradox” in two cases of memo...

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East European Politics Theorizing Cooperation and Conflict in Euro-Russian Relations. Volume 36, Issue 4 of East European Politics

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From parish to parliament: resources and alliances of anti-gender movements in Southeast Europe This article explores the emergence of anti-gender mobilisation in Southeast Europe with a comparative case study of Bulgaria, Croatia, and Serbia. I employ a most similar systems design to explain...

🌟New & temp. #FREE article 'From parish to parliament: resources and alliances of anti-gender movements in Southeast Europe' by @tranfi.bsky.social ( @sns.it / @authlibeu.bsky.social) 👉 doi.org/10.1080/2159...
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