At the Ballot Boxes or in the Streets and Factories: Economic
Contention in the Visegrad Group

C 2015

At the Ballot Boxes or in the Streets and Factories: Economic Contention in the Visegrad Group

CÍSAŘ, Ondřej and Jiří NAVRÁTIL

Basic information

Original name

At the Ballot Boxes or in the Streets and Factories: Economic Contention in the Visegrad Group

Authors

CÍSAŘ, Ondřej (203 Czech Republic, guarantor) and Jiří NAVRÁTIL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Farnham, Austerity and Protest. Popular Contention in Times of Economic Crisis, p. 35-53, 19 pp. The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture, 2015

Publisher

Ashgate

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

50601 Political science

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14560/15:00084917

Organization unit

Faculty of Economics and Administration

ISBN

978-1-4724-3918-5

Keywords in English

protest; mobilization; austerity; economy; Great Recession; Central Europe

Abstract

V originále

Although some knowledge exists on how economic restriction and protests are related in “old” Western democracies, little is known about how economic situation and protest are related in new democracies. This context is different from the established democracies for several reasons. Citizens and social movements in these countries are pictured as apathetic towards politics, disengaged, politically passive, and protesting very little. Simultaneously, these new democracies have been dealing with severe economic and financial hardships already from the very beginning of their existence and have experienced several waves of austerity measures in the last 20 years. The paper examines protest on issues pertaining to economy, welfare, and social policies – which we call “economic protest” – in Eastern Europe and more specifically in the so-called Visegrad Group (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia). It shows that the level of economic protest varies strongly across these four countries, with Czech Republic and Slovakia being much less contentious than Hungary and Poland. It maintains that available theories are poorly equipped to explain such differences and argue that the explanation lies on the overall structure of the political conflict of these post-communist countries and, more specifically, that economic protest emerges under the conditions of a suppressed economic cleavage in the field of party politics.

Links

EE2.3.30.0009, research and development project

Name: Zaměstnáním čerstvých absolventů doktorského studia k vědecké excelenci

Citovat

CÍSAŘ, Ondřej and Jiří NAVRÁTIL. At the Ballot Boxes or in the Streets and Factories: Economic Contention in the Visegrad Group. In Marco Giugni, Maria T. Grasso. Austerity and Protest. Popular Contention in Times of Economic Crisis. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015, p. 35-53. The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture. ISBN 978-1-4724-3918-5.

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CÍSAŘ, Ondřej and Jiří NAVRÁTIL. At the Ballot Boxes or in the Streets and Factories: Economic Contention in the Visegrad Group. In Marco Giugni, Maria T. Grasso. \textit{Austerity and Protest. Popular Contention in Times of Economic Crisis}. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015, p.~35-53. The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture. ISBN~978-1-4724-3918-5.

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