2nd Edition
The Routledge Handbook of East European Politics
Introduction: Polity, Policy and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe Beyond the Transition Paradigm
Adam Fagan, Petra Guasti and Petr Kopecký
Part I: Regime Dynamics
1. Variety of Eastern European Regimes
Bálint Madlovics and Bálint Magyar
2. Democratic Regression and Resilience in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989
Licia Cianetti and Seán Hanley
3. The Post-Soviet Autocracies
Stephen Hall
4. Varieties of Capitalism and Welfare States in Post-Socialist Europe: Dependency, Financialization, and Post–Global Financial Crisis Transformations
Dorothee Bohle, Dan Mocanu and Marek Naczyk
Part II: Political Institutions and Processes
5. Presidents, Governments, and Parliaments in Eastern Europe
Florian Grotz and Marko Kukec
6. The Adaptation and Transformation of Political Parties in Central and Eastern Europe
Tim Haughton
7. Electoral Behaviour in Eastern Europe: Voter Turnout and Vote Choice
Filip Kostelka and Eva Krejcova
8. Electoral Clientelism in Central and Eastern Europe
Paul Tap and Sergiu Gherghina
9. The Rule of Law and Judicial Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
Kálmán Pócza and Márton Csapodi
10. Bureaucracies between Reform and Autocratisation in Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans: Towards ‘Bureaucracies with Adjectives’?
Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling
11. Center-Periphery Relations and Regional Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
Ekaterina Paustyan
12. Media Politics in Central Eastern Europe
Attila Bátorfy and Ágnes Urbán
Part III: Society, Identity and Culture
13. Social Movements, Civil Society, Protest Mobilization, and Contentious Politics in post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe
Ondřej Císař and Linda Coufal
14. Politics of Gender in East-Central Europe
Weronika Grzebalska and Andrea Peto
15. LGBTIQ Politics after Communism
Conor O’Dwyer
16. Disinformation in Eastern Europe: Mapping the State of Research
Václav Štětka and Jonáš Syrovátka
17. The Politics of the Environment in Eastern Europe
Aron Buzogány and Eszter Krasznai Kovács
18. Corruption and Anti-corruption in Post-communist Europe
Tatiana Kostadinova and Maria Spirova
19. Poverty and Income Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe
Bilyana Petrova and Ana Petrova
Part IV: International Relations and Geopolitics
20. Eastern Europe in the World
Mitchell A. Orenstein and Mihai Varga
21. Eastern Europe in the EU
Visnja Vukov
22. The Future of EU Enlargement
Nikolaos Tzifakis and Florian Bieber
23. Russia’s war against Ukraine
Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel
24. Contested Borders in Central and Eastern Europe: Kin-State Politics, De Facto States, and Conflicts over Sovereignty
Magdalena Dembińska
Biography
Adam Fagan is Professor of European Politics at King's College London, UK.
Petra Guasti is Associate Professor of Democratic Theory at Charles University, Czech Republic.
Petr Kopecký is a Professor of Political Science at Leiden University, The Netherlands.
“This is an indispensable volume for all students of East Central Europe, with its wide ranging and expert coverage from the most prominent scholars in the field.”
Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University, USA
“The countries of Central and Eastern Europe have become amalgam of political phenomena that far outstrip their erstwhile characterization as merely ‘post-communist’. Through a three-tiered lens of polity, policy and politics, this volume has brought to being both a trenchant and useful analytical framework for recalibrating our understanding of political development in this region. It will lead us forward insightfully for many years to come.”
Vello Pettai, University of Tartu, Estonia
“This volume underlines that the politics of central and eastern Europe are not about the past catching up to the present. It rather explains how the political dynamics of the region allow all students of democracy to discern the challenges of the future. As such, the volume enlightens our understanding of the tensions facing contemporary democracy everywhere.”
Jan Rovny, Sciences Po, Paris, France
