The state of political science in Central and Eastern Europe

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The book surveys the current state and recent development of political science in post-communist Central and Eastern European countries from Albania and Armenia through Latvia and Lithuania to Slovenia and the Ukraine. The book will survey the recent development and current “state of the art" of political science in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe.

It will compr. Written shortly after the formation of Char the essays in this collection are among the most original and compelling pieces of political writing to have emerged from central and Eastern Europe during the whole of the post-war period.

Václav Havel’s essay provides the title for the by: The book surveys the current state and recent development of political science in post-communist Central and Eastern European countries from Albania and Arme |. Grade 9 Up?This book addresses the developments, changes, and issues that have occurred in Central and Eastern Europe since when the Cold War ended.

The 12 countries included were, at the beginning ofindependent, sovereign, and diplomatically recognized states with membership in the United Nations and other international by: 2.

Book Description This book examines the transformation of the state in Central and Eastern Europe since the end of communism and adoption of market oriented reform in the early s, exploring the impact of globalization and economic liberalization on the region’s states, societies and political economy.

The State of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe brings together scholars specialising in the study of Central and Eastern Europe, and provides a comprehensive analysis of some of the major issues in the democratic make-up of the EU’s new member states. The book covers the main dimensions of the state, and contributors discuss questions about the development of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe.

The broad principle of Europeanization was a guiding light for the transformation that has taken place in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) since communist rule began to crumble in This was no less true of political parties and party systems than of other major components in Cited by: 9.

This research aims to develop a deeper insight into the development of political science from the bibliometric perspective by analysing peer-reviewed journal articles (n  = ) indexed in the Scopus database and published by authors from fifteen Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries in the period –Cited by: 1.

"A useful text and reference book. These essays are at their best in serving both area study and political sociology."Slavic Review"Wolchik and Curry have assembled an all-star cast of experts for an authoritative assessment of the progress the region has made toward liberal democracy and a market economy in the last two decades.

The book's particular strength is to cast the process in. Gender, institutions and political representation: reproducing male dominance in Europe's new democracies by Cristina Chiva, London, Palgrave Macmillan,pp, € (hardcover), ISBN COVID Resources.

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Schmitter, Philippe and Terry Karl () ‘ The Types of Democracy Emerging in Southern and Eastern Europe and South and Central America ’, in Peter Volten (ed.), Bound to Change: Consolidating Democracy in East Central Europe, New York and Prague: Institute for East West Studies.

Taking into account the enlargement of the European Union, it provides coverage of Central and Eastern Europe along with discussions of Western Europe. The text considers both the national and.

The state of political science in Central and Eastern Europe Author: Hans-Dieter Klingemann ; Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung Abteilung Institutionen und Sozialer Wandel. The second focuses on populist forces across the world with chapters on Africa, Australia and New Zealand, Central, Eastern, and Western Europe, East Asia, India, Latin America, the post-Soviet States, and the United States.

The third reflects on the interaction between populism and various issues both from scholarly and political viewpoints.

It was extended to Central and Eastern Europe only after the key features of the European Union (EU) as they are today had been created and become established.

Until the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe in –90, countries such as Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Hungary, and Poland were either part of the Soviet Union or were. Department of Political Science. The curriculum is unique within Europe, covering almost all areas of political studies, and offers in-depth expertise in the comparative politics of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Representing a comprehensive range of academic approaches and expertise, faculty address questions of. This book examines how foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to Central and Eastern Europe have changed after the Great Recession.

It argues that beyond their cyclical effects, the economic crisis and the changing competitiveness of Central and Eastern European countries have had structural impacts on FDI in the region.

Populist forces are becoming increasingly relevant across the world, and studies on populism have entered the mainstream of the political science discipline. However, so far no book has synthesized the ongoing debate on how to study the populist phenomenon. This handbook provides state of the art research and scholarship on populism, and lays out, not only the cumulated knowledge on populism.

Summary/Abstract: State strategies in Central Europe have converged towards a distinctive form of the competition state. This article explains the moment of convergence and identifies the political support of the competition state by making three principal points.

First, the internally oriented strategies were exhausted by the end of the nineties.We are the leading scholarly society concerned with the research and teaching of political science in Europe, headquartered in the UK with a global membership. There is a small number of comparative works dealing also with the Union’s members from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), i.e.: Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia.

The book's main research questions concern the diversity and the strength of judicial decisions, namely, the questions “how differentiated are the decisions of the Central European constitutional courts” and “to what extend have these differentiated decisions [ ] constrained the room for manoeuvre of the legislature” (3).

The Author: Christian Boulanger.