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The Role of Legitimacy in Shaping Tax Morale: The Case of Hungary 合法性在塑造税收士气中的作用：以匈牙利为例

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East European Politics and Societies Pub Date : 2025-03-24 DOI: 10.1177/08883254251324435

Zsanett Pokornyi, Tamás Barczikay

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Fictionalizing the Past in Estonia: Cultural Memory in Women’s Literature 虚构爱沙尼亚的过去：女性文学中的文化记忆

IF 0.7 4区社会学

East European Politics and Societies Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1177/08883254251324523

Elena Pavlova, Irina Paert

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Artists and Generals: The Representation of Colonial and National Rule through Street Naming 艺术家与将军：通过街道命名来表现殖民统治与国家统治

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East European Politics and Societies Pub Date : 2025-03-19 DOI: 10.1177/08883254251324212

Ágoston Berecz

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A Narrow Path to Victory: Robert Fico, Smer-SD, and the 2023 Elections in Slovakia 狭窄的胜利之路：罗伯特·菲科，斯梅尔- sd，和斯洛伐克的2023年选举

IF 0.7 4区社会学

East European Politics and Societies Pub Date : 2025-03-19 DOI: 10.1177/08883254251324191

Tim Haughton, David Cutts, Marek Rybář

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Gender Differences in Public Issue Salience: Evidence from Czechia 公共议题显著性的性别差异：来自捷克的证据

IF 0.7 4区社会学

East European Politics and Societies Pub Date : 2025-03-16 DOI: 10.1177/08883254251321179

Lucie Bohdalová

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“We No Longer Only Carry Flowers”: Radicalization Processes Among the Belarusian Opposition-in-Exile “我们不再只携带鲜花”：白俄罗斯流亡反对派的激进化进程

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East European Politics and Societies Pub Date : 2025-03-16 DOI: 10.1177/08883254251321177

Ekaterina Pierson-Lyzhina

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Platens from the Past: Yugonostalgia and the UNIS-tbm Typewriter 来自过去的打字机：对时代的怀念和美国打字机

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East European Politics and Societies Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.1177/08883254241309286

Kristen R. Ghodsee

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Neo-Feudalism and Neo-Traditionalism as Responses to Liberalism 新封建主义与新传统主义对自由主义的回应

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East European Politics and Societies Pub Date : 2024-12-18 DOI: 10.1177/08883254241295463

Jan Kubik

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Expelled from the Fairytale: The Impact of the Dissident Legacy on Post-1989 Central European Politics 被逐出童话世界：持不同政见者的遗产对 1989 年后中欧政治的影响

IF 0.7 4区社会学

East European Politics and Societies Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1177/08883254231196318

Kacper Szulecki

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Václav Havel Posthumous Reclamation of a National Hero? 瓦茨拉夫-哈维尔被追认为民族英雄？

IF 0.7 4区社会学

East European Politics and Societies Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1177/08883254221148489

Barbara J. Falk, Daniela Bouvier-Valenta

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