The (Not So) Surprising Longevity of Identity Politics

Contemporary Challenges of the State-Society Compact in Central Eastern Europe
Herausgeber: Agarin, Timofey

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Produktbeschreibung

This book assesses the underpinning role 'references to identity' played and continue to play as the powerful mobilising force in domestic politics across the East European region stretching from Estonia to Bulgaria.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9781032222639
• ISBN-10: 1032222638
• Artikelnr.: 69920633

Autorenporträt

Timofey Agarin teaches Comparative Politics at Queen's University Belfast, where he is also the Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict. His research interests are ethnic politics and their impact on societal transition, including majority-minority relations, non-discrimination, migration and civil society, with a particular focus on post communist states in Central Eastern Europe.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The (not so) surprising longevity of identity politics:
contemporary challenges of the state- society compact in Central Eastern
Europe 1. Authoritarian footprints in Central and Eastern Europe 2. Weak
pluralism and shallow democracy: the rise of identity politics in Bulgaria
and Romania 3. Caesarean politics in Hungary and Poland 4. In Europe's
Closet: the rights of sexual minorities in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
5. Nation before democracy? Placing the rise of the Slovak extreme right
into context 6. Latgale and Latvia's post- Soviet democracy: the
territorial dimension of regime consolidation 7. Consolidated technocratic
and ethnic hollowness, but no backsliding: reassessing Europeanisation in
Estonia and Latvia