Abstract (may include machine translation)
Central and Eastern Europe is the last world region to transition towards democracy. Today, it shows alarming signs of de-consolidation, most prominently in Hungary, Poland, and Serbia. This article assesses whether these observations form part of a systematic pattern across the region. It relies on newly-updated objective data from the Democracy Barometer for the period between 1990 and 2016. It revisits evidence for the three most prominent explanations of democratic backsliding in the region: the rise of populist parties, the incapacity of the European Union to secure democracy once pre-accession incentives weaken, and the global financial crisis.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 167-187 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | East European Politics |
Volume | 36 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2 Apr 2020 |
Keywords
- Central and Eastern Europe
- European integration
- financial crisis
- populism
- quality of democracy
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Authoritarian footprints in Central and Eastern Europe
Juon, A. (Creator), Bochsler, D. (Creator) & Juon, A. (Contributor), Harvard Dataverse, 2020
DOI: 10.7910/dvn/2jqh0t, https://dataverse.harvard.edu/citation?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/2JQH0T
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