East European Politics and Societies最新文献

The Demagogic Normality of Polish Neo-Traditionalism: Constructing an Illiberal Imaginary 波兰新传统主义的蛊惑常态：构建一个非自由的想象

IF 0.7 4区社会学

East European Politics and Societies Pub Date : 2025-05-08 DOI: 10.1177/08883254251335935

Francesco Melito

{"title":"The Demagogic Normality of Polish Neo-Traditionalism: Constructing an Illiberal Imaginary","authors":"Francesco Melito","doi":"10.1177/08883254251335935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08883254251335935","url":null,"abstract":"The process of democratization in Central and Eastern Europe has been shaken by the growth of counter-hegemonic narratives contesting the Western-type model of liberal democracy. The “illiberal turn” in Poland frequently targets progressive values, manifesting as a cultural war around the meaning of the signifier “normality.” This article focuses on an illiberal neo-traditionalist discourse coalition in Poland, analyzing the ideological discursive construction of “normality” from two angles. First, it empirically discloses the effort to replace the liberal collective imaginary with a neo-traditionalist alternative. Neo-traditionalism pictures an idyllic “normal” way of life, invoking a mythical past as a remedy to a perceived failure—the broken promise of the post-1989 transformation. Simultaneously, it creates images of monstrosity and abnormality to exclude different worldviews. Second, illiberal processes of normalization are presented as a demagogic, rather than populist, practice that frames “our normality” as the only scenario a rational individual can desire. Illiberal neo-traditionalism thus emerges as a demagogic and ideological mobilization to redefine what is to be considered normal in response to a performed crisis.","PeriodicalId":47086,"journal":{"name":"East European Politics and Societies","volume":"140 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143920465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

War Populism? Volodymyr Zelensky’s Visual Transformation on Instagram after Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine 战争的民粹主义吗?俄罗斯全面入侵乌克兰后，Volodymyr Zelensky在Instagram上的视觉变化

IF 0.7 4区社会学

East European Politics and Societies Pub Date : 2025-05-08 DOI: 10.1177/08883254251335939

Michael Cole

引用次数: 0

The Ethnic Card: From Diaspora Policy Instrument to Migration Policy Trigger. The Case of the Pole’s Card 民族卡片：从散居政策工具到移民政策触发器。波兰人的卡片案例

IF 0.7 4区社会学

East European Politics and Societies Pub Date : 2025-04-28 DOI: 10.1177/08883254251332300

Marcin Gońda, Magdalena Lesińska

{"title":"The Ethnic Card: From Diaspora Policy Instrument to Migration Policy Trigger. The Case of the Pole’s Card","authors":"Marcin Gońda, Magdalena Lesińska","doi":"10.1177/08883254251332300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08883254251332300","url":null,"abstract":"Initially, kin-states introduced ethnic cards to strengthen ties with kin-minorities. Today the ethnic card has transformed into an important and effective tool of migration policy, aimed at attracting new immigrants and potential future citizens. Its purpose has changed from reinforcing identity and cultural ties with a diaspora to encouraging the holders to settle and filling labor and demographic gaps in the kin-state. The article presents the evolution of the ethnic card as an instrument of kin-state policy using the example of the Pole’s Card. Since its introduction in 2007, the Card’s provisions have changed profoundly; not only have its subject and material scope been significantly expanded but there has also been a noticeable shift in the narrative about its role in the state’s policy toward the Polish diaspora. Based on a review of legislative documents, transcripts of parliamentary sessions on the Act on the Pole’s Card, as well as expert interviews, the authors trace this evolution, analyze the motives behind the process, and examine the impact of the Card on current migration flows to Poland.","PeriodicalId":47086,"journal":{"name":"East European Politics and Societies","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143884350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Do Populists in Power or the Economy Impact Civic Culture? 民粹主义者掌权还是经济影响公民文化？

IF 0.7 4区社会学

East European Politics and Societies Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1177/08883254251335936

Denis Ivanov

{"title":"Do Populists in Power or the Economy Impact Civic Culture?","authors":"Denis Ivanov","doi":"10.1177/08883254251335936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08883254251335936","url":null,"abstract":"This paper empirically tests whether populists in power or economic wellbeing influence civil society and civic culture. It conceptualizes civic culture broadly by focusing on citizen mobilization and evaluation of both national and supranational political institutions. The longer populists hold government positions, the stronger their control over civil society organizations, affecting participation in civil society initiatives. However, a higher GDP per capita is associated with increased participation in civic society initiatives. Both the duration of populist rule and economic factors shape civic culture across Central and Eastern Europe. On the country level, the length of governance under populist elites correlates with a decrease in individual social connectedness, growing dissatisfaction with democracy, and diminished interest in politics. Country-level economic development correlates with higher levels of institutional trust, social trust, social connectedness, and satisfaction with democracy but negatively with trust in the European Union, election turnout, interest in politics, and participation in trade unions. Higher levels of civic culture are most consistently driven by one’s income at individual level. Citizens appear to be evolving into allegiant citizens—those who maintain some level of trust in governmental institutions also support the principles and practices of democracy and exhibit a general increase in apathy toward politics. Evidence from the European Social Survey and the V-Dem database supports these conclusions.","PeriodicalId":47086,"journal":{"name":"East European Politics and Societies","volume":"78 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143875829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

The East and the West: Regional Deservingness and Migration Aspirations of Displaced Ukrainians Living in Poland and the Czech Republic 东方与西方：居住在波兰和捷克共和国的流离失所乌克兰人的地区归属感和移民愿望

IF 0.7 4区社会学

East European Politics and Societies Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1177/08883254251332662

Luděk Jirka, Mateusz Kamionka, Lucie Macková

{"title":"The East and the West: Regional Deservingness and Migration Aspirations of Displaced Ukrainians Living in Poland and the Czech Republic","authors":"Luděk Jirka, Mateusz Kamionka, Lucie Macková","doi":"10.1177/08883254251332662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08883254251332662","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars of deservingness emphasize the attitudes of host societies toward migrant communities and inter-ethnic stances of migrant groups but not in-group perceptions of deservingness. Based on interviews with Ukrainian citizens who received temporary protection in the Czech Republic and Poland after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, we show that participants classified the fleeing of their fellow citizens from Western Ukraine as non-deserving of temporary protection. Migration from this region, minimally affected by the war, was seen as economic and voluntary not forced. As such, Ukrainians from this part of Ukraine could not vindicate their displacement. By contrast, those fleeing from Eastern Ukraine were perceived as worthy, since their migration was “truly” forced due to the active war, and therefore deserving of temporary protection. However, most Ukrainians displaced in the Czech Republic and Poland are from Western Ukraine and thus, from the perspective of participants, they do not deserve temporary protection. This research suggests that regional aspects are important when studying the “deserving” or “non-deserving” migration aspirations of Ukrainian beneficiaries of the Temporary Protection Directive.","PeriodicalId":47086,"journal":{"name":"East European Politics and Societies","volume":"76 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143876095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Is it Greener on the Right Side? The Relationship between Political Preferences and Environmental Behavior in Hungary 右边更绿吗？匈牙利政治偏好与环境行为的关系

IF 0.7 4区社会学

East European Politics and Societies Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1177/08883254251333781

Barna Bakó, Zombor Berezvai, Péter Isztin, József Ráti

引用次数: 0

Why Brothers in Kosovo Build Identical Houses: The House as an Attempt to Adapt to Contradictions of Globalization 为什么科索沃的兄弟建造相同的房子：房子是一种适应全球化矛盾的尝试

IF 0.7 4区社会学

East European Politics and Societies Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1177/08883254251335981

Radan Haluzík

{"title":"Why Brothers in Kosovo Build Identical Houses: The House as an Attempt to Adapt to Contradictions of Globalization","authors":"Radan Haluzík","doi":"10.1177/08883254251335981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08883254251335981","url":null,"abstract":"Remittances following economic and wartime migration are behind the huge number of remittance houses and entire remittance landscapes that have grown up in Kosovo in recent decades. The houses emulate the style and comfort of the villas of European and American suburbia but also in many respects reflect the local life style, the traditional life of (joint) families, but also the dramatic changes that it is undergoing. A model in which two, three, four, or more brothers build a row of houses—one for each brother—has become popular in the building boom in rural and suburban Kosovo in the last two decades. This article interprets these family projects as an attempt by joint families to adapt to the massive cultural change and globalization that (not only) Kosovo has been going through. As a proactive albeit problematic attempt to tackle the (otherwise) intractable tensions and ambivalences that rapid cultural transformations bring. The adaptation involved is a response to challenge at four levels: First, the growing economic inequality between brothers in joint family households; second, the physical absence of the owners of these houses, who are often living abroad; third, the growing desire for individuation and privacy; and finally, the disintegration/reformulation of the very institution of the joint family. It is unclear, however, whether it is really possible for architecture as agent of adaptation to counterbalance the immense social pressures generated by globalization or resolve the intractable contradictions with which it faces families and individuals.","PeriodicalId":47086,"journal":{"name":"East European Politics and Societies","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143875876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Introduction: Under-Explored Consequences of the War in Ukraine 引言：乌克兰战争未被充分探讨的后果

IF 0.7 4区社会学

East European Politics and Societies Pub Date : 2025-04-04 DOI: 10.1177/08883254251321334

Lavinia Stan

引用次数: 0

The Politics of Work: Young Employees’ Awareness of Industrial Relations in Romania’s Call Centres 工作的政治：罗马尼亚呼叫中心的年轻雇员对劳资关系的认识

IF 0.7 4区社会学

East European Politics and Societies Pub Date : 2025-03-26 DOI: 10.1177/08883254251321178

Maria-Carmen Pantea

{"title":"The Politics of Work: Young Employees’ Awareness of Industrial Relations in Romania’s Call Centres","authors":"Maria-Carmen Pantea","doi":"10.1177/08883254251321178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08883254251321178","url":null,"abstract":"The business service sector, of which call centers make up a large share, has emerged as an important driver of growth in central and eastern Europe. This article explores how young employees in call centers in Romania interpret their labor market positioning, how they engage with the structures that shape their working lives, and how they mobilize values to make sense of complex labor processes and industrial relations. Based on in-depth, face-to-face interviews with forty-two call centers operators and twenty-six human resource staff and managers at different levels of seniority, the article suggests that young people exhibit limited geopolitical literacy and are not inclined to contextualize their work within global value chains. Instances of acute awareness of labor relations are the exception, not the norm. Interviewees displayed strong viewpoints, mainly in situations of pronounced power imbalance. The article suggests that the characteristics of call centers limit young employees’ ability to participate in meaningful debate about the labor structures in which they participate. It raises additional questions regarding the circumstances that enable young people to develop their political literacy at work.","PeriodicalId":47086,"journal":{"name":"East European Politics and Societies","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143712917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

From Opposition to Implementation: Unraveling the Strategy of Technocratic Populist Government’s Appropriation of Opposition Policy Proposals 从反对到实施：解读技术官僚民粹主义政府对反对政策建议的挪用策略

IF 0.7 4区社会学

East European Politics and Societies Pub Date : 2025-03-26 DOI: 10.1177/08883254251324195

Ivan Jarabinský

{"title":"From Opposition to Implementation: Unraveling the Strategy of Technocratic Populist Government’s Appropriation of Opposition Policy Proposals","authors":"Ivan Jarabinský","doi":"10.1177/08883254251324195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08883254251324195","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the appropriation of opposition policy proposals undertaken by the Czech minority governments led by Andrej Babiš and his technocratic populist party, ANO. The article defines policy appropriation and then assesses its theoretical and empirical underpinnings within the broader context of a technocratic populist government. This is followed by a discussion of Babiš’ premierships and ANO’s tenure, their incentives to appropriate policy and how appropriation unfolded. Employing a multiple-case study design, the article scrutinizes fifteen policies affected by appropriation with the help of parliamentary documents available online. The findings reveal three relationships among bills addressing the same issues: policy appropriation, policy ownership conflict, and unrelated governmental policies. In cultivating the image of expert competence, technocratic populists may encounter challenges in achieving other objectives, such as fostering an efficient parliament. While several bills addressed similar policies in similar ways, not all of the opposition’s allegations were substantiated. Nevertheless, the government’s conduct diminishes the role and contributions of the opposition in the Chamber of Deputies, potentially undermining political pluralism by delegitimizing the opposition.","PeriodicalId":47086,"journal":{"name":"East European Politics and Societies","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143713002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0