Populism and Democracy in Central Europe

Readings

• Applebaum, Anne (2018). ‘A Warning from Europe: The Worst is Yet to Come’ The Atlantic, October 2018 https://web-a-ebscohost-com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/ehost/detail/detail?vid=3&sid=96050ad0- 9839-48c9-a0b5- 051de8a19ce3%40sessionmgr4008&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#db=a9h&AN=13 1647758 ↗
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• Rupnik, Jacques (2018). ‘The Crisis of Liberalism’ Journal of Democracy, 29:3, pp 24-38
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• Krastev, Ivan. (2010). ‘Deepening Dissatisfaction’, Journal of Democracy, 21(1), pp 113-119
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• Brown, J.F. (1994). Hopes and Shadows: Eastern Europe after Communism. Durham: Duke University Press. Read chapters 1 and chapter 3
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• Ágh, Attila (1998). The Politics of Central Europe. London: Sage. [e-book,
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• Buzzfeed video on Prague Spring : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKAantnfNx8 This video details the reforms: could ask about the significance of these. Why is free press, developing of new groups (youth groups) significant? Why does USSR feel threatened? ↗
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• Balcerowicz, Leszek (1994). ‘Understanding postcommunist transitions’ Journal of Democracy, 5(4), pp 75-89
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• Zielonka, Jan. (2004). ‘Challenges of EU Enlargement’ Journal of Democracy, 15(1), pp. 22-35
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• Brown, J.F. (1994). Hopes and Shadows: Eastern Europe After Communism. Durham: Duke University Press. Chapter 5. European Commission (2003). European Union Enlargement: An Historic Opportunity: A general overview of the enlargement process and the pre-accession strategy of the European Union. Edition 2001. http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/archives/pdf/press_corner/publications/corpus_en.pdf ↗
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• Cameron, David. ‘The Challenges of Accession’, East European Politics and Societies, 17(1):24-41
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• Garton Ash, Timothy (2002). ‘Trials, purges and history lessons: treating a difficult past in post-communist Europe’ chapter 12 in Jan-Werner Müller, ed., Memory and Power in Post-War Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (e-book). https://www-cambridge- org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/core/books/memory-and-power-in-postwar- europe/D121F1E0CB06C71FA19F8A80B3640700 ↗
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• Rosenberg, Tina (1995). ‘Overcoming the Legacies of Dictatorship’ Foreign Affairs, 74(3), pp. 134-152. Verovšek, P. J. (2021). Caught between 1945 and 1989: Collective memory and the rise of illiberal democracy in postcommunist Europe. Journal of European Public Policy, 28(6), 840–
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• Appel, Hilary (2005) ‘Anti-Communist Justice and Founding the Post-Communist Order: Lustration and Restitution in Central Europe’ East European Politics and Societies, 19, pp 379-405
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• Kopstein, Jeffrey (2003) ‘Postcommunist Democracy: Legacies and Outcomes’ Comparative Politics, vol. 35, no. 2, pp 231-250. (This is a review article)
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• Seleny, Anna (2007) ‘Communism’s Many Legacies in East-Central Europe’, Journal of Democracy, 18(3), pp 156-170
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• Williams, Kieran, Brigid Fowler and Aleks Szczerbiak (2005). ‘Explaining Lustration in Central Europe: A ‘Post-communist politics’ Approach’ Democratization, 12(1), pp 22-43
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• Grzymala-Busse, Anna (2019). ‘The Failure of Europe’s Mainstream Parties’ Journal of Democracy, 30(4), pp 35-47
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• Marks, G., Hooghe, L, Nelson, M and Edwards, E. (2006). ‘Party Competition and European Integration in the East and West: Different Structure, Same Causality’ Comparative Political Studies, 39(2), pp 155-175
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• Allen, Trevor (2015) ‘All in the party family? Comparing far right voters in Western and Post-Communist Europe’. Party Politics, online first, doi 10.1177/1354068815593457
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• Berman, S. and Snegovaya, M (2019). ‘Populism and the Decline of Social Democracy’ Journal of Democracy, 30(3), pp 5-19
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• Innes, Abby (2002) Party Competition in Post-Communist Europe: The Great Electoral Lottery. Comparative Politics 35(1)
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• Mechkova, V., Lührmann, A. and Lindberg S. (2017). ‘How Much Democratic Backsliding’? Journal of Democracy, 28(4), pp 162-169. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/671998/pdf ↗
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• Mudde, Cas (2004). ‘The Populist Zeitgeist’ Government and Opposition, 39(4), 542-563
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• Schmitter, P. and Karl, T. (1991). ‘What Democracy Is…and Is Not’ Journal of Democracy 2(3), pp 75-88
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• Thorlakson, Lori (2018). ‘Introduction to special section, Parties and Party System Development in Post- communist Europe’, East European Politics, Societies and Cultures, 32(3), pp 411-421
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• Enyedi, Zsolt (2020). ‘Right-wing authoritarian innovations in Central and Eastern Europe’ East European Politics, 36(3), pp 363-377. https://www-tandfonline- com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/doi/full/10.1080/21599165.2020.1787162 ↗
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• Bugaric, Bojan (2019). ‘The two faces of populism: Between authoritarian and democratic populism’ German Law Journal, 20, pp. 390-400
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• Fieschi, Catherine (2020). Populocracy: the tyranny of authenticity and the rise of populism. Newcastle: Agenda Publishing. Chapters 1 and 2
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• Jakli, Laura (2024). ‘East-Central Europe: The Young and the Far-Right’ Journal of Democracy, 35(2), pp 65-79
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• Mudde, C. and Kaltwasser, R. (2012). ‘Populism and (liberal) democracy: a framework for analysis’. in
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• Mudde, C. and R. Kaltwasser, eds., Populism in Europe and the Americas: Threat or Corrective for Democracy? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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• Rupnik, Jacques (2007). ‘From democracy fatigue to populist backlash’. Journal of Democracy, vol 18(4), pp 17-25
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• Stenner, Karen (2005). The Authoritarian Dynamic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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• Set in 1984 in East Berlin, this film follows a Stasi officer tasked with surveilling a playwright and his girlfriend. A brilliant reflection on power, control and the moral ambiguities resulting from operating within the communist state. Written and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Winner of numerous awards, including several European Film Awards and the 2007 Academy Award for best foreign language film
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• Ruzzo, Carla. (2018). ‘Populism, migration, and xenophobia in Europe, in Carlos de la Torre, ed, Routledge Handbook of Global Populism. https://www-taylorfrancis-com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/books/routledge-handbook-global- populism-carlos-de-la-torre/e/10.4324/9781315226446 ↗
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  ISBN 9781315226446
• Auer, Stefan (2010). ‘New Europe: between cosmopolitan dreams and nationalist nightmares’. Journal of Common Market Studies, 48(5):1163-1184
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• Brubaker, Rogers. 1996. Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Available as an e-book through the University of Alberta library. (Read the introduction and chapter one)
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• Chiva, Cristina (2006) ‘Ethnic minority rights in Central and Eastern Europe: the case of the Hungarian ‘Status Law’’. Government and Opposition, 41(3), pp 401-421
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• Vachudova, Milada Anna (2020). ‘Ethnopopulism and democratic backsliding in Central Europe’ East European Politics, 36(3), pp 318-340. Thursday class exercise:
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• Bilal, Arsalan (2024). ‘Russia’s hybrid war against the West’ NATO Review, 26 April 2024. https://www.nato.int/docu/review/articles/2024/04/26/russias-hybrid-war-against-the-west/index.html ↗
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• Grzymala-Busse, Anna (2024) ‘How Ukraine Divides Postcommunist Europe’. Journal of Democracy, 35(1), 74-86
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• Farrell, Caitlin and James, Lisa. (2024). The role of the media in democracies: what is it and why does it matter? The Constitution Unit Blog, University College London, 30 January 2024. https://constitution-unit.com/2024/01/30/the-role-of-the-media-in-democracies-what-is-it-and-why- does-it-matter/ ↗
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• Disinformation Bayer et al (2021). Disinformation and propaganda: impact on the functioning of the rule of law and democratic processes in the EU and its Member States. European Parliament, Policy Department for External Relations, Directorate General for External Policies of the Union PE 653.633, April 2021. https://edit.elte.hu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10831/55693/EXPO_STU(2021)653633_EN.pdf?sequence=1 ↗
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• European Parliament (2024). Foreign interference: how Parliament is fighting the threat to EU democracy. European Parliament Directorate General for Communication, 28 April 2024. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20240404STO20215/foreign-interference-how- parliament-is-fighting-the-threat-to-eu-democracy ↗
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• Reisher, Jonathan (2022). The effect of disinformation on democracy: the impact of Hungary’s democratic decline. CES Working Papers 1:42-68. file:///Users/thorlaks/Downloads/the-effect-of-disinformation-on- democracy-the-impact-of-hungary-s-democratic-decline_Content%20File-PDF%20(1).pdf
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• Howard, Marc Morjé. (2003). The Weakness of Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi- org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/10.1017/CBO9780511840012 ↗
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• Foa, Roberto Stefan and Ekiert, Grzegorz (2017). ‘The weakness of postcommunist civil society reassessed’. European Journal of Political Research, 56:419-439. Rose-Ackerman, Susan. (2007). From Elections to Democracy in Central Europe: Public Participation and the Role of Civil Society. East European Politics and Societies and Cultures. 21(1), pp 31-47
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• Freedom House (2020) Nations in Transit 2024: https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/2024- 04/NIT_2024_Digital_Booklet.pdf ↗
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• Transformation of European Politics Podcast: Daniel Ziblatt, discussing How Democracies Die, by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
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• Bankuti, Mikos, Halmai, Gabor and Scheppele, Kim Lane (2012). ‘Disabling the Constitution’. Journal of Democracy, 23(3):138-146
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• Anghel, Veronica and Jones, Erik (2024). ‘What Went Wrong in Hungary’, Journal of Democracy, 35(2), pp 52-64
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• Krastev, Ivan (2017). After Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
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• Müller, Jan-Werner. 2015. Should the EU Protect Democracy and the Rule of Law inside Member States? European Law Journal, Vol. 21, No. 2, March 2015. pp 141-160
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