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Leading int’l journal on the government, politics & societies of the post-communist space. Edited by @AdamFagan24, @kopeckydvorec, @LBustikova & @AndreaPirro

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New & #FREE article 'Democratic resilience and re-democratisation' by Licia Cianetti (@unibirmingham) out now! 👇 doi.org/10.1080/21599165.202…

Democratic resilience and re-democratisation

Almost two decades into the current wave of autocratisation, regime scholars have been turning their attention to the potential for democracies to resist mounting authoritarian pressures and for de...

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🇽🇰🗳️Today: parliamentary elections in #Kosovo! Read some excellent pieces on Kosovo in the comments 👇
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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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Ethnic minority party formation and success in Europe

What causes ethnic minority parties (EMPs) to emerge, and why do only some of them become electorally successful? I test commonly offered explanations for variation in EMP emergence and success wit...

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Condoning postwar corruption: how legacies of war prevent democratic accountability in contemporary...

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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Home bias and political ideology: experimental evidence on attitudes toward FDI in Southeast Europe

This study explores home bias in foreign direct investment (FDI) preferences through an experiment involving 12,419 participants across six Southeast European countries. Respondents evaluated hypot...

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🇦🇲🗳️ Tomorrow: parliamentary elections in #Armenia! Read some great articles on Armenia posted in the comments below 👇
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Explaining the pattern of Russian authoritarian diffusion in Armenia

The literature dealing with the international dimensions of authoritarianism suggests that regional hegemons may exploit linkage and leverage to counter democracy and diffuse authoritarian ideas an...

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The European Union as a normative power: the case of Armenia

In September 2013, Armenia, after four years of negotiations, declared that it would join the Russian-led Eurasian Customs Union. That caused the interruption of the Association Agreement (AA) talk...

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Autocrats and peaceful resignation in the post-Soviet space: is there a political culture explana...

When faced with large-scale dissent, autocracies often use repression. However, in some cases, autocrats resign peacefully, raising the question of why they do not prioritise the survival of their ...

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Interdependences with external actors and regime persistence in Eastern Partnership countries*

This article addresses how both external democratic and non-democratic actors impact the persistence of non-democratic regimes in third countries. We focus on asymmetrical interdependences and adva...

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Patterns of international organizations’ engagement in reform and policy making in the post-Soviet...

The paper explains how states and international organisations interact in policy making by focusing on five countries of the post-Soviet space. Based on in-depth interviews conducted in Armenia, Be...

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New article in @EEPolitics: How are domestic political conflicts reframed in geopolitical terms after Russia’s war against Ukraine? We analyse the “geopoliticisation of domestic issues” across Central & Eastern Europe and the Baltic Sea region. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

The geopoliticisation of domestic issues in the Baltic Sea Region and Central and Eastern Europe

This special issue examines the geopoliticisation of domestic political issues in the Baltic Sea region and Central and Eastern Europe in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine. It conceptuali...

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New & #FREE article: 'Representative strategies of opposition MPs in an electoral autocracy: a typology of young #Hungarian parliamentarians' by Annamaria Sebestyen (@css_budapest) 👉 doi.org/10.1080/21599165.202… 🇭🇺

Representative strategies of opposition MPs in an electoral autocracy: a typology of young Hungar...

This article examines the representative strategies of young Hungarian opposition MPs to improve our understanding of opposition behaviour in electoral autocracies. Based on fifteen semi-structured...

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How do young opposition MPs navigate everyday representation in an electoral autocracy? @annamariasebestyen.bsky.social introduces a novel typology of opposition representation based on interviews with young Hungarian opposition MPs. #PoliticalRepresentation #ElectoralAutocracy
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💡New & #Free article: 'A comparative analysis of the geopolitical orientations of #Belarusian elites in the aftermath of 2020 and 2022' by @leukavets (@SCEEUS_UI / @TheWilsonCenter)👉 doi.org/10.1080/21599165.202…

A comparative analysis of the geopolitical orientations of Belarusian elites in the aftermath of...

This article analyses how and why the geopolitical orientations of Belarusian elites diverged after 2020, comparing the trajectories of the Lukashenka regime and the Belarusian democratic forces in...

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💡New & #FREE article: 'Practices of de-Europeanisation in #Georgia: culture strategy 2025 as a case of policyfailing' by Olga Chumicheva 👉 doi.org/10.1080/21599165.202… 🇬🇪

Practices of de-Europeanisation in Georgia: culture strategy 2025 as a case of policyfailing

The article critically examines Georgia’s Culture Strategy 2016–2025 as a case of policy transfer in the context of Europeanisation and its further political dismantling alongside the authoritarian...

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New & #FREE article: 'Mapping the nation: a multi-scalar imagination in a dichotomised #Montenegro' by Christopher L. C. Kee (@CSEESGraz /@ECNUER )👉 doi.org/10.1080/21599165.202… 🇲🇪

Mapping the nation: a multi-scalar imagination in a dichotomised Montenegro

While discussions about Montenegro’s national identities have been the object of different studies, these have not centred the role of geography or, more specifically, the perception of space. Usin...

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With Dr. Yovcheva (@universitysofia), on @LSEEuroppblog looking at the perils of presidential elections for party system stability in #Bulgaria, based on research published in @BJPolS (tinyurl.com/4kmjfbw8) & @WorldDevJournal (tinyurl.com/3zxcteve): tinyurl.com/4xtrhwdt

Presidential Elections and European Party Systems (1848–2020) | British Journal of Political...

Presidential Elections and European Party Systems (1848–2020) - Volume 54 Issue 3

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🇧🇬🗳️Ahead of tomorrow's parliamentary elections in #Bulgaria, read some great analyses recently published in our journal (see in the comments)👇
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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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