The (Not So) Surprising Longevity of Identity Politics

This book assesses the underpinning role 'references to identity' played and continue to play as the powerful mobilising force in domestic politics across the East European region stretching from Estonia to Bulgaria.

Auteur

Timofey Agarin teaches Comparative Politics at Queen's University Belfast, where he is also the Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict. His research interests are ethnic politics and their impact on societal transition, including majority-minority relations, non-discrimination, migration and civil society, with a particular focus on post communist states in Central Eastern Europe.

Contenu

Introduction: The (not so) surprising longevity of identity politics: contemporary challenges of the state- society compact in Central Eastern Europe

Timofey Agarin

1. Authoritarian footprints in Central and Eastern Europe

Daniel Bochsler and Andreas Juon

2. Weak pluralism and shallow democracy: the rise of identity politics in Bulgaria and Romania

Kiril Kolev

3. Caesarean politics in Hungary and Poland

Robert Sata and Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski

4. In Europe's Closet: the rights of sexual minorities in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Petra Guasti and Lenka Bustikova

5. Nation before democracy? Placing the rise of the Slovak extreme right into context

Erika Harris

6. Latgale and Latvia's post- Soviet democracy: the territorial dimension of regime consolidation

Geoffrey Pridham

7. Consolidated technocratic and ethnic hollowness, but no backsliding: reassessing Europeanisation in Estonia and Latvia

Licia Cianetti* *