Challenges To Democracies in East Central Europe

B 2016

Challenges To Democracies in East Central Europe

HOLZER, Jan, Miroslav MAREŠ, Pavel DUFEK, Vlastimil HAVLÍK, Michal MOCHŤAK et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Challenges To Democracies in East Central Europe

Name in Czech

Výzvy středovropským demokraciím

Authors

HOLZER, Jan (203 Czech Republic, guarantor), Miroslav MAREŠ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Pavel DUFEK (203 Czech Republic), Vlastimil HAVLÍK (203 Czech Republic), Michal MOCHŤAK (703 Slovakia), Aneta PINKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic), Andrew Lawrence ROBERTS (840 United States of America), Petra VEJVODOVÁ (203 Czech Republic) and Petr KUPKA (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

London, 145 pp. Routledge Advances in European Politics, sv. 127, 2016

Publisher

Routledge

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Odborná kniha

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"

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/16:00087957

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

ISBN

978-1-138-65596-6

UT WoS

000610722700010

Keywords (in Czech)

demokracie; střední Evropa

Keywords in English

Challenges; Democracy; East Central Europe

Abstract

V originále

The introductory chapter contextualises the volume in recent research on democratisation and de-democratisation. The authors review the developments during the 1990s and 2000s, from the emphasis on successful transitions to conceptualisations of democratic consolidation in East Central Europe (Beyme, Merkel) to the shift to ‘degreeism’ in assessing the quality of democracy, influenced by recent debates in normative democratic theory. The authors note that despite the wealth of literature on quality of democracy not least in ECE, there is relatively little on de-democratisation and its causes and symptoms. The chapter gives an overview of the contributions by, among others, Charles Tilly and Paul Blokker; the authors explain why the present volume takes a less common route and focuses primarily on traits and developments which, despite hovering mostly outside of the political space defined by formal democratic institutions, could or should be perceived as signs of de-democratisation. The selection of five ECE countries – namely (in alphabetical order) the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia – is then justified. The authors finally emphasise that the volume does not aspire to provide a grand meta-narrative of democratic deconsolidation; rather its intended strength lies in providing sustained analytical narratives related to the democratic experience of the selected ECE countries as well as a consistent comparative focus. The introductory chapter closes by a brief overview of the contents of individual chapters.

Links

GAP408/11/0709, research and development project

Name: Soudobé výzvy demokracii ve středovýchodní Evropě

Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Contemporary challenges of democracy in East Central Europe

Citovat

HOLZER, Jan, Miroslav MAREŠ, Pavel DUFEK, Vlastimil HAVLÍK, Michal MOCHŤAK, Aneta PINKOVÁ, Andrew Lawrence ROBERTS, Petra VEJVODOVÁ and Petr KUPKA. Challenges To Democracies in East Central Europe. London: Routledge, 2016, 145 pp. Routledge Advances in European Politics, sv. 127. ISBN 978-1-138-65596-6.

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HOLZER, Jan, Miroslav MAREŠ, Pavel DUFEK, Vlastimil HAVLÍK, Michal MOCHŤAK, Aneta PINKOVÁ, Andrew Lawrence ROBERTS, Petra VEJVODOVÁ and Petr KUPKA. \textit{Challenges To Democracies in East Central Europe}. London: Routledge, 2016, 145 pp. Routledge Advances in European Politics, sv. 127. ISBN~978-1-138-65596-6.

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