2007/07/01 by Anna Seleny · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Populism, Right-Wing Movements #Eastern European Communism and Reforms #Post-Communist Economic and Political Transition
paper · doi:10.1353/jod.2007.0056
openalex publication_date 2007/07/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
By focusing on the informal legacies that still shape the democracies of Central and Eastern Europe, we can attain a nuanced understanding of the region's postcommunist countries. In Poland, confrontational maximalism helps to generate governmental instability and poor policy continuity, while in Hungary there is now a question mark hanging over the future of the bounded flexibility that once reliably helped to center democratic politics. In the Czech Republic, instrumentalist attitudes and partisan-ideological differentiation jointly increase the chances of serious corruption and polarization, while in Slovakia the democratic system appears to lack an endogenous force capable of effectively confronting bigotry and discrimination.