Pub Date : 2023-02-06DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2174502
Justyna Kajta, Julita Makaro, M. Dębicki
ABSTRACT Divided towns are specific urban units that were once single cities before their subsequent division through the drawing of new state borders based on arbitrary political decisions. The specific nature of such towns thus originates primarily from their common history and their location on a border. This article focuses on two examples from Central and Eastern Europe, one situated on the Polish-Czech border (Cieszyn and Český Těšín) and the other on the Polish-German border (Słubice and Frankfurt an der Oder), in order to provide a comparative analysis of cross-border cooperation. Based on an analysis of secondary data and literature, we explore the factors deemed most essential in the literature for the integration of and cooperation between divided towns today – namely historical legacies, cultural and political factors, (a)symmetries and border/periphery locations – to investigate what similarities and differences can be observed in the analysed towns.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-02DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2172161
Zakiah, Benardito Rompas
Fisheries and Laws in Europe: Regulation After Brexit is a current series of ‘Legal Perspectives on Brexit’, which explores the consequences of Brexit for the UK fishing industry. The series discusses issues within fisheries post-Brexit by examining them from socio-economic, environmental, legal, and policy perspectives. The author also comprehensively illustrates the different problems faced by each UK nation (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland), including the different social and economic issues that arose due to Brexit.
{"title":"Fisheries and laws in Europe: regulation after Brexit","authors":"Zakiah, Benardito Rompas","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2023.2172161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2023.2172161","url":null,"abstract":"Fisheries and Laws in Europe: Regulation After Brexit is a current series of ‘Legal Perspectives on Brexit’, which explores the consequences of Brexit for the UK fishing industry. The series discusses issues within fisheries post-Brexit by examining them from socio-economic, environmental, legal, and policy perspectives. The author also comprehensively illustrates the different problems faced by each UK nation (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland), including the different social and economic issues that arose due to Brexit.","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"574 - 575"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73960621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-30DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2171969
Benedetta Carlotti
ABSTRACT Over the last decade there has been a growing convergence between Putin’s Russia and West European right-wing populist parties (WERPPs) that are growing in consensus around Europe. Such relationship, depicted as “marriage of convenience”, benefits both Putin in his quest for the international legitimization of his political regime and WERPPs in their rally for power at both the national and the European levels. Grounded on a mix of populism, opposition to the European Union and radical right-wing ideology, does this marriage survive the Ukrainian crisis or does it transform itself in a “divorce of convenience”? This work uses an original dataset of more than 900k tweets collected in the period between 2013 and 2022 and produced by two Italian populist parties and shows what shapes WERPPs’ communication about Russia. Moreover, it empirically demonstrates how fragile, mutable and exposed to the influence of contextual factors this relationship is.
{"title":"A divorce of convenience: exploring radical right populist parties’ position on Putin’s Russia within the context of the Ukrainian war. A social media perspective","authors":"Benedetta Carlotti","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2023.2171969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2023.2171969","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Over the last decade there has been a growing convergence between Putin’s Russia and West European right-wing populist parties (WERPPs) that are growing in consensus around Europe. Such relationship, depicted as “marriage of convenience”, benefits both Putin in his quest for the international legitimization of his political regime and WERPPs in their rally for power at both the national and the European levels. Grounded on a mix of populism, opposition to the European Union and radical right-wing ideology, does this marriage survive the Ukrainian crisis or does it transform itself in a “divorce of convenience”? This work uses an original dataset of more than 900k tweets collected in the period between 2013 and 2022 and produced by two Italian populist parties and shows what shapes WERPPs’ communication about Russia. Moreover, it empirically demonstrates how fragile, mutable and exposed to the influence of contextual factors this relationship is.","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86739216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-30DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2174503
Sergiu Gherghina, Raluca Luțai
ABSTRACT Personality traits have an impact on citizens’ political participation especially in relation to voting. However, we know little about how personality traits can influence people’s attitudes towards electoral clientelism. The latter is associated with voting in many societies and has been explained so far mainly through political, social and economic determinants. This article focuses on the psychological dimension and seeks to analyze how personality traits have an effect on citizens’acceptance of electoral clientelism. It distinguishes between three forms of clientelism: vote-buying, product provision and job promises. The statistical analysis uses the Big Five framework and individual-level data from an original survey conducted in Romania after the September 2020 local elections. The results show that only a small share of voters accept electoral clientelism.Conscientiousness, Extraversion and Agreeableness drive the acceptance of different forms of clientelism under specific circumstances.
{"title":"Who accepts electoral clientelism? The role of personality traits in Romania","authors":"Sergiu Gherghina, Raluca Luțai","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2023.2174503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2023.2174503","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Personality traits have an impact on citizens’ political participation especially in relation to voting. However, we know little about how personality traits can influence people’s attitudes towards electoral clientelism. The latter is associated with voting in many societies and has been explained so far mainly through political, social and economic determinants. This article focuses on the psychological dimension and seeks to analyze how personality traits have an effect on citizens’acceptance of electoral clientelism. It distinguishes between three forms of clientelism: vote-buying, product provision and job promises. The statistical analysis uses the Big Five framework and individual-level data from an original survey conducted in Romania after the September 2020 local elections. The results show that only a small share of voters accept electoral clientelism.Conscientiousness, Extraversion and Agreeableness drive the acceptance of different forms of clientelism under specific circumstances.","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89930343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-29DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2022.2163380
D. Albertazzi, Donatella Bonansinga
{"title":"Beyond anger: the populist radical right on TikTok","authors":"D. Albertazzi, Donatella Bonansinga","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2022.2163380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2022.2163380","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73521668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-05DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2022.2163991
Kateřina Kočí, M. Gladysh, O. Krayevska
ABSTRACT The concept of resilience has become a leitmotif for the current foreign policy narrative and practices of most Western states and international organisations. It has been more visible due to the pandemic crisis and accentuated significantly in the midst of the escalation between Ukraine and Russia. This article first discusses various notions of resilience, especially unpacking state-centred and societal approaches to resilience. In the empirical section, it identifies and compares the views and approaches to the resilience of the EU and Ukraine. The qualitative content analysis shows that their views on resilience identified in the official documents have differed substantially over the last few years. Yet, the top-down (or state-centred) approach clearly dominates in both environments. While the EU links resilience to stabilisation of the area, Ukraine has formulated the concept only recently, connecting it first with the desire to belong to the EU community, but soon tested it in the face of a Russian attack. Therefore, the war has triggered severe discussion, not only about the future commitment of the EU to the Eastern region but also pushes both actors (often unwillingly) towards adapting their societies in a rapidly changing world and possibly towards reformulating the concept as such.
{"title":"Do the EU and Ukraine speak the same language? The various notions of resilience before the military intervention","authors":"Kateřina Kočí, M. Gladysh, O. Krayevska","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2022.2163991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2022.2163991","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The concept of resilience has become a leitmotif for the current foreign policy narrative and practices of most Western states and international organisations. It has been more visible due to the pandemic crisis and accentuated significantly in the midst of the escalation between Ukraine and Russia. This article first discusses various notions of resilience, especially unpacking state-centred and societal approaches to resilience. In the empirical section, it identifies and compares the views and approaches to the resilience of the EU and Ukraine. The qualitative content analysis shows that their views on resilience identified in the official documents have differed substantially over the last few years. Yet, the top-down (or state-centred) approach clearly dominates in both environments. While the EU links resilience to stabilisation of the area, Ukraine has formulated the concept only recently, connecting it first with the desire to belong to the EU community, but soon tested it in the face of a Russian attack. Therefore, the war has triggered severe discussion, not only about the future commitment of the EU to the Eastern region but also pushes both actors (often unwillingly) towards adapting their societies in a rapidly changing world and possibly towards reformulating the concept as such.","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76307979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2169365
Maciej Stępka
builds on a variety of national perspectives to present a picture of the European Union in disequilibrium, deeply contested and struggling with internal tensions and an unevenness in its responses to multilayered crises. As editors of the volume point out, the promise of a cosmopolitan Europe of prosperity and stability seems to be wavering and EU mainstream political leadership is losing its ground in constantly shifting socio-political realities. In this regard, this book takes on the issue of liberal decline in the face of increased migratory flows and Brexit, showing the multifaceted nature of Europe in crisis. It unravels core and peripheral narratives, showing co-dependencies of competing interpretations such as ‘securitized v. humanitarian’, ‘familiarity v. otherness’ or ‘supranational v. national’ that have been making up contemporary socio-political landscape in the EU. It is an insightful and interdisciplinary volume that gathers a strong team of scholars who provide an interesting comparative overview of predominantly national perspectives
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Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2022.2162486
M. Kołczyńska
ABSTRACT Studies typically find that supporters of populist parties exhibit low political trust. Drawing on research on winner-loser gaps in political support and the consequences of political polarization on attitudes, I re-examine the association between populism and political trust taking into account the supported party’s status in or outside of government, distinguishing between government leaders and junior coalition partners. I analyze data from the European Social Survey Rounds 1–9 from nine Central and Southern European countries that experienced populist parties as government leaders, combined with party characteristics from the Varieties of Party Identity and Organization as well as democracy scores from the Varieties of Democracy datasets. Results show that the effect of party status on political trust is stronger among supporters of populist than non-populist parties. Further, I find that supporters of populist governments enjoy greater trust advantages in less democratic contexts.
{"title":"The winner takes all the trust: populism, democracy, and winner-loser gaps in political trust in Central and Southern Europe","authors":"M. Kołczyńska","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2022.2162486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2022.2162486","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Studies typically find that supporters of populist parties exhibit low political trust. Drawing on research on winner-loser gaps in political support and the consequences of political polarization on attitudes, I re-examine the association between populism and political trust taking into account the supported party’s status in or outside of government, distinguishing between government leaders and junior coalition partners. I analyze data from the European Social Survey Rounds 1–9 from nine Central and Southern European countries that experienced populist parties as government leaders, combined with party characteristics from the Varieties of Party Identity and Organization as well as democracy scores from the Varieties of Democracy datasets. Results show that the effect of party status on political trust is stronger among supporters of populist than non-populist parties. Further, I find that supporters of populist governments enjoy greater trust advantages in less democratic contexts.","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":"13 1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75533678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-27DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2022.2157976
Mila Maeva
{"title":"Migration and populism in Bulgaria","authors":"Mila Maeva","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2022.2157976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2022.2157976","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"248 - 249"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84352759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-26DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2022.2153496
Ben Rosher
{"title":"Brexit and the Migrant Voice: EU citizens in post-Brexit literature and culture","authors":"Ben Rosher","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2022.2153496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2022.2153496","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73067421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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