Democratic hypocrisy in practice: a panel study of revealed preferences for liberal democracy in Poland

Democratic hypocrisy – the tendency for citizens to express support for democratic norms in the abstract while tolerating violations of those norms when doing so serves their partisan interests – h...

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East European Politics | 99 followers on LinkedIn. Leading international, peer-reviewed journal on the government, politics and societies of the post-communist space | East European Politics is a lead...

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Borrowed blueprints, broken systems: the moderating effect of state capacities on the diffusion of “digital authoritarianism” in Eurasia

Authoritarian diffusion theories explain cooperation among autocracies to sustain stability through resources or policy learning. Existing research centres on autocracy promotion or “authoritarian ...

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From protest to piety: the cultural consolidation of PiS voters in Poland

This study investigates the evolving profile of voters supporting Poland's Law and Justice party (PiS) between 2012 ande 2023, asking: How have individual-level traits shaped electoral support for ...

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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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Representative strategies of opposition MPs in an electoral autocracy: a typology of young Hungarian parliamentarians

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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A comparative analysis of the geopolitical orientations of Belarusian elites in the aftermath of 2020 and 2022

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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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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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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Elite defection and opposition realignment in Hungary: Respect and Freedom Party (TISZA) in the 2024 European Parliamentary elections

The 2024 European Parliamentary elections yielded an opposition landslide in Hungary. Respect and Freedom (TISZA), a genuinely new party led by a Fidesz defector, emerged as Orbán's unequivocal cha...

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🎈 How opposition MPs survive in electoral autocracies

In countries experiencing democratic backsliding, opposition MPs must confront not only the crisis of political representation but also structural constraints that limit their influence. Drawing on re...

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Direct mayoral elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina: an ethnic zero-sum game

This article examines how the demographic composition of municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina shapes the strategic behaviour of co-ethnic political parties in direct mayoral elections. It argue...

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Institutional drift in post-soviet political economy: the case of Georgia

This study examines institutional drift as a mechanism of democratic backsliding in Georgia. Using V-Dem data (2010–2024), it develops an Institutional Drift Index measuring declines in horizontal,...

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Geopolitics and autocratisation in hybrid regimes: the case of Georgia

This article explains how incumbents in hybrid regimes use geopolitics to strengthen regime durability. It develops two autocratisation strategies: declarative Europeanisation, a deliberate tool th...

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Changes in radical right’s security and defence policy position: the case of Sweden democrats, 2022

Although scholarship on security and defence policy of radical right parties (RRPs) is growing, limited attention has been paid to why some RRPs change their positions and geopolitical orientations...

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Predicting budget robustness of Ukrainian local self-government during Russia’s war against Ukraine

Russia’s war against Ukraine constitutes a severe multi-aspect challenge for Ukraine’s economy. Existing studies stress the positive role the 2014 decentralisation reform in Ukraine has had in comb...

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(Anti)corruption and conditionality in the geopolitical enlargement: Ukraine’s EU accession in comparative perspective

Since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, geostrategic urgency has revived EU enlargement, raising fears that speed may erode conditionality. This article argues instead that Ukraine's accession pat...

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