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In recent year, Central and Eastern Europe has experienced a wave of populist ascent that has swamped the mainstream discourse with radical notions and has led to a shift to the right in many countries of the region. Victor Orbán's endeavour of transforming Hungary into an 'illiberal democracy' is expressive of a larger trend of democratic hollowing and backsliding in postcommunist European states. Today, more than twenty years after Francis Fukuyama predicted liberalism's ultimate victory against its competing ideologies and with that 'the end of history', liberalism faces a powerful challenger in Central and Eastern Europe: populism. This paper travels back to the days of liberal triumph and explores to what extent the political-economic transformation of post-communist states has influenced populism in Central and Eastern Europe. Building on Karl Polanyi's 'Double Movement', populism in Central and Eastern Europe is conceptualized as a countermovement against the hegemony of Western European liberalism. While resolving political and institutional differences between the democratic West and the communist East, I will argue, the transformation has not managed to resolve the normative hierarchy innate in the systemic confrontation between East and West. Instead, this hierarchy persists within the logic of democratic liberalism, perpetuating a power imbalance between the 'accomplished and normative' Western European version of liberalism and the 'defective and still becoming' Eastern European version thereof. Populist actors increasingly refuse to accept the Western liberal model as the normative ideal and instead draft their own version of democracy, abandoning many of what the West understands as liberalism's core concepts.
Cognisant of the ongoing pandemic and political turmoil across Europe, this timely book examines the growing influence of populist movements in Central and Eastern Europe. Simona Kukovič and Petr Just bring together contributions from experts working in the fields of political science and sociology to study the roots and ramifications of populism in this historically turbulent region.
The rise of illiberal democracies across Central and Eastern Europe represents an ongoing challenge to the democratic and liberal principles of post-Enlightenment societies. However, considerable debate remains about how to disentangle the complex factors that have contributed to this phenomenon and gain a clearer understanding of the issues shaping the political landscape. In this incisive analysis of the populist phenomenon, Populism in Central and Eastern Europe re-examines the roots of the current political situation, tracing the historical evolution of Central and Eastern European populism. From late nineteenth-century Imperial Russia to Viktor Orbán's Hungary and Jaroslaw Kaczyński's Poland, this book offers an innovative approach to addressing these enduring political issues.
This book addresses the variety of right-wing illiberal populism which has emerged in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Against the backdrop of weak institutional traditions, frequent and profound transformations, and deep historical traumas affecting the law, politics, economy and society in the region, the book critically examines the entanglements of legality in the region’s transformation from state socialism to neoliberalism and Western-style democracy. Drawing on critical legal theory, as well as legal history, legal theory, sociology of law, history of ideas, anthropology of law, comparative law, and constitutional theory, the book goes beyond conventional analyses to offer an in-depth account of this important contemporary phenomenon. This book will be of interest to legal researchers, especially of a critical or socio-legal perspective, political scientists, sociologists and (legal) historians, as well as policy makers seeking to understand the regional specificity and deeper roots of Central and Eastern European illiberal populism.
This book is the first concentrated effort to explore the most recent chapter of East Central European past from the perspective of intellectual history. Post-socialism can be understood both as a period of scarcity and preponderance of ideas, the dramatic eclipsing of the dissident legacy?as well as the older political traditions?and the rise of technocratic and post-political governance. This book, grounded in empirical research sensitive to local contexts, proposes instead a history of adaptations, entanglements, and unintended consequences. In order to enable and invite comparison, the volume is structured around major domains of political thought, some of them generic (liberalism, conservatism, the Left), others (populism and politics of history) deemed typical for post-socialism. However, as shown by the authors, the generic often turns out to be heavily dependent on its immediate setting, and the typical resonates with processes that are anything but vernacular.
East European populism has influenced the politics of peasant societies, offering an alternative to both socialist and capitalist developmental strategies. Anti-Semitic, xenophobic, anti-modern and anti-urban, the populists have represented an ideology which has been anti-modernist overall. In this much-needed volume, distinguished historians and political scientists discuss this crucial topic.
This book charts the new phase of global struggles around gender equality and sexual democracy: the ultraconservative mobilization against "gender ideology" and feminist efforts to counteract it. It argues that anti-gender campaigns, which emerged around 2010 in Europe, are not a simple continuation of the anti-feminist backlash dating back to the 1970s, but part of a new political configuration. Opposition to "gender" has become a key element of the rise of right-wing populism, which successfully harnesses the anxiety, shame and anger caused by neoliberalism and threatens to destroy liberal democracy. Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment offers a novel conceptualization of the relationship between the ultraconservative anti-gender movement and right-wing populist parties, examining the opportunistic synergy between these actors. The authors map the anti-gender campaigns as a global movement, putting the Polish case in a comparative perspective. They show that the anti-gender rhetoric is best understood as a reactionary critique of neoliberalism as a socio-cultural formation. The book also studies the recent wave of feminist mass mobilizations, viewing the transnational revolt of women as a left populist movement. This is an important study for those doing research in politics, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies and sociology. It will also be useful for activists and policy makers. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com , has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
"The book contains a presentation and critical consideration of the ideas of historians on the major problems, processes, events, and personalities of the era of the Bulgarian (national) Revival. It is dominated by the effort to understand how the Bulgarian Revival has been conceived of and imagined while keeping a certain distance from the various views presented, whether critical, ironic, or simply that inherent in the presentation of another person's view."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved