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How backsliding governments keep the European Union hospitable for autocracy: Evidence from intergovernmental negotiations
The European Union (EU) is a democratic organization but faces severe cases of democratic backsliding. The literature deems the EU a hospitable...
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Building strong executives and weak institutions: How European integration contributes to democratic backsliding
Although the European Union (EU) is considered unrivaled in its democracy promoting abilities, democracy is being challenged within its borders. Over...
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Trojan horses in liberal international organizations? How democratic backsliders undermine the UNHRC
Liberal democracy is facing renewed challenges from a growing group of states undergoing democratic backsliding. While entrenched autocrats have long...
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Re-nationalizing Citizenship and Democratic Backsliding: Anti-gender Mobilizations in Central-Eastern Europe
This chapter explores the emergence, rise and effects of the anti-gender mobilizations in (Central-Eastern) Europe, arguing that anti-gender...
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Measuring Political Institutions in the Long Run: A Latent Variable Analysis of Political Regimes, 1810–2018
In this article, latent variable analysis is used to construct hybrid measure of political development based on the plausible common variation...
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Renegotiating in good faith: How international treaty revisions can deepen cooperation
International agreements are often understood to help governments make credible commitments to future policy by limiting their ability to renege on...
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Emigration and Transnational Political Practices in Central and Eastern Europe After EU Enlargement 2004–2007
As the European Union expanded eastward in 2004 and 2007 to cover the formerly communist states of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), this triggered a...
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Established-Outsiders Relations in Poland Reconfiguring Elias and Scotson
This book uses Norbert Elias and John L. Scotson’s The Established and The Outsidersto map selected established-outsiders figurations in Poland...
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The Past, Present, and Future States of Political Theory
Beginning with a historical perspective on the long and short past of political theory, I argue for three priorities for the field’s future: (1)...
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Populism as the Consequence and Catalyst of Social Problems
This chapter, based on a review of existing literature on the phenomenon of populism, aims to demonstrate the “double nature” of populism as the...
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Stuck in Dangerous Carbon-Polluting Practices?
Before assessing proposed solutions in the next section of the book, it is necessary to face up to the depth of the fossil-fuelled climate crisis and...
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Conclusions
This chapter takes stock of the evidence gathered in the empirical sections and summarizes the main findings. We discuss the differences between...
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The Present and Future of Sustainable Development Goals amid the Transforming Global Order and Social Change. A Decade of Action
Labeled by the UN as a holistic “plan of action for people, planet and prosperity,” the Agenda 2030 embraces 17 ambitious Sustainable Development...
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Populism and Caste in Contemporary India: Sociopolitical Pragmatisms of Caste Associations
This essay assesses the core principles of populism in order to understand the trajectory of populist discourses in India. In doing so, the role of...
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The lost boys? A call to examine gender equality attitudes and the men of Gen Z
Although over the past decade there has been deceleration, stalling and even reversal in global gender parity measures, overall attitudes to gender...
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The Far-Right, Anti-gender Politics and Neoliberal Globalization
This chapter critically discusses two main strands of recent feminist studies focusing on the one hand, on gender and the far-right, and, on the...
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External Voting Patterns: CEE Migrants in Western Europe
This chapter compares external voting of CEE diasporas in Western Europe with voting patterns observed in those diasporas’ respective countries of...