Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1080/21599165.2022.2155948
U. Pape, Stanislav Klimovich, Katharina Bluhm
ABSTRACT The Russian state requires companies to invest in welfare provision and to conclude socio-economic cooperation agreements (SECAs) with regional administrations. Based on empirical evidence from Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, this article analyses state-business interactions at the subnational level. We show that state and business actors have formalised their resource exchange in the SECAs. Because of the agreements' adaptive nature, both parties are able to manage their respective obligations and risks within an authoritarian and highly volatile environment. We identify four patterns of contractual relations, depending on the companies' production capacities and their commitment to providing social investments in the region.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-08DOI: 10.1080/21599165.2022.2152798
Ana Pajvančić-Cizelj
ABSTRACT This paper brings the “scale question” into the discussion of urban movements in Southeast Europe and offers a multispatial framework for their analysis. It focuses on the shifting scale of urban movements in Serbia, which was recently united in a wider citizen's platform. The paper reveals that scaling up from the single-issue initiative to a national political alliance is a challenging process that takes place on multiple scales. The main challenges are co-optation and tension between urban issues and issues in other spaces beyond the (capital) city. My explanation considers the centralised semi-authoritarian national government and the urban-rural divide in Serbia.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-06DOI: 10.1080/21599165.2022.2146092
Oleksii Viedrov
ABSTRACT This discourse analysis of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his party, Servant of the People, over the period 2019–2021, provides a case study that adds to the emergent literature on technocratic populism, confirming some of its hypotheses. Technocratic populism utilises “outsider experts” and seeks “normalisation” via depoliticisation and demobilisation of the population. The political context of Ukraine was favourable to technocratic and inclusionary populism in the 2019–2021 period because the degree of trust in political parties was low and there was an association of the “old elites” with highly polarised politics structured along regional and identitarian lines.
本文对乌克兰总统泽连斯基(Volodymyr Zelensky)及其政党“人民公仆”(Servant of the People)在2019-2021年期间的话语分析提供了一个案例研究，为新兴的技术官僚民粹主义文献提供了补充，并证实了其中的一些假设。技术官僚民粹主义利用“外部专家”，并通过去政治化和人口复员来寻求“正常化”。在2019-2021年期间，乌克兰的政治环境有利于技术官僚和包容性民粹主义，因为对政党的信任程度很低，而且“旧精英”与按照地区和认同路线构建的高度两极化的政治有联系。
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Pub Date : 2022-12-06DOI: 10.1080/21599165.2022.2152799
Ivaylo Dinev
ABSTRACT This article traces the transformation of the new left in Slovenia from a protest movement into the political force United Left/The Left during the anti-establishment protest wave against the conservative government of Janez Janša (2012–2013). Through a triangulation of the protest event dataset and qualitative analysis, this piece shows that the new left combined anti-austerity and pro-democratic messages with growing economic and political grievances early on in the cycle of protest and seised the political opportunities that emerged after the collapse of the traditional left-wing forces, thus paving the way for the successful electoral turn.
{"title":"Barricades and ballots: exploring the trajectory of the Slovenian left","authors":"Ivaylo Dinev","doi":"10.1080/21599165.2022.2152799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2022.2152799","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article traces the transformation of the new left in Slovenia from a protest movement into the political force United Left/The Left during the anti-establishment protest wave against the conservative government of Janez Janša (2012–2013). Through a triangulation of the protest event dataset and qualitative analysis, this piece shows that the new left combined anti-austerity and pro-democratic messages with growing economic and political grievances early on in the cycle of protest and seised the political opportunities that emerged after the collapse of the traditional left-wing forces, thus paving the way for the successful electoral turn.","PeriodicalId":46570,"journal":{"name":"East European Politics","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80159078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-26DOI: 10.1080/21599165.2022.2150613
J. Navrátil
ABSTRACT How do political protests transform into a social movement? Analysing Czech anti-war protest events between 2002 and 2009, this study aims at identifying particular mechanisms through which the social-movement mode of coordination was established out of a fragmented field of activism through consecutive protest campaigns. The study shows how broadening collective identity and creating instrumental relationships in times with the opening of political opportunities is followed by the institutionalisation and further expansion of protest cooperation during a period of heightened political threats, which establishes a new mode of protest coordination.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-16DOI: 10.1080/21599165.2022.2146093
H. Aliyev
The book Defection Denied. A Study of Civilian Support for Insurgency in Irregular War is one of the few comprehensive publications on the under-researched topic of Islamist insurgency in the Russia ’ s North Caucasus ’ s republic of Dagestan. The decades-long brutal Jihadist struggle in the remote mountainous region of North Caucasus has long had its epicentre in the autonomous republic of Dagestan, where rugged mountainous terrain, ethnic and sectarian clea-vages and rampant systemic corruption provided Jihadist insurgents with a fertile ground for recruitment. Siroky et al. vividly capture these dynamics, focusing on one of the least explored aspects of the armed con fl ict in the North Caucasus, civilian support for insurgents. When unveiling their research puzzle, the authors emphasise the lack of primary data on gauging popular support for insurgency, which in the absence of unbiased polling and survey data, is nearly impossible to collect in restrictive authoritarian settings of Dagestan. Few would argue that Dagestan, along with other
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Pub Date : 2022-11-16DOI: 10.1080/21599165.2022.2136652
Branimir Staletović, L. Pollozhani
ABSTRACT The urban project “Skopje 2014” was not particularly welcomed by citizens, however, despite the popular discontentment, and controversial implementation, it did not instigate mass resistance at its outset. We analyze the role of social activism, the state's deployed strategy of coercion, and the inability to form a broader unity to contest the project at its outset. Subsequently, we contextualize the project within the social movements that emerged between 2013-2016. By juxtaposing two periods, we explain why mass resistance occurred in 2016 but not at the project's outset, analyzing the activist scene, the political landscape and the nature of the regime.
{"title":"To resist or not to resist: “Skopje 2014” and the politics of contention in North Macedonia","authors":"Branimir Staletović, L. Pollozhani","doi":"10.1080/21599165.2022.2136652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2022.2136652","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The urban project “Skopje 2014” was not particularly welcomed by citizens, however, despite the popular discontentment, and controversial implementation, it did not instigate mass resistance at its outset. We analyze the role of social activism, the state's deployed strategy of coercion, and the inability to form a broader unity to contest the project at its outset. Subsequently, we contextualize the project within the social movements that emerged between 2013-2016. By juxtaposing two periods, we explain why mass resistance occurred in 2016 but not at the project's outset, analyzing the activist scene, the political landscape and the nature of the regime.","PeriodicalId":46570,"journal":{"name":"East European Politics","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73923696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-16DOI: 10.1080/21599165.2022.2146094
Filiz Doğan
{"title":"The frontline: essays on Ukraine’s past and present","authors":"Filiz Doğan","doi":"10.1080/21599165.2022.2146094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2022.2146094","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46570,"journal":{"name":"East European Politics","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78395522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-04DOI: 10.1080/21599165.2022.2139683
A. Tarasenko
ABSTRACT Why do regions (non)comply or creatively comply in response to federal-driven reforms in Russia? This article studies the interplay of interests and incentives prompted by a contract between a principal and agents on the one hand, and shaped by the regional socio-economic context on the other. The analysis proved that the incapacity of the public sector to satisfy the societal demand for services in urbanised areas encouraged compliance. The creative compliance results from a need to demonstrate commitment to the reform in regions with a lack of favourable conditions. Non-compliance is adopted in ethnic republics and in relatively poor regions.
{"title":"Outsourcing elderly care to private companies in Russia: (non)compliance and creative compliance as responses to the principal-agent problem","authors":"A. Tarasenko","doi":"10.1080/21599165.2022.2139683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2022.2139683","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Why do regions (non)comply or creatively comply in response to federal-driven reforms in Russia? This article studies the interplay of interests and incentives prompted by a contract between a principal and agents on the one hand, and shaped by the regional socio-economic context on the other. The analysis proved that the incapacity of the public sector to satisfy the societal demand for services in urbanised areas encouraged compliance. The creative compliance results from a need to demonstrate commitment to the reform in regions with a lack of favourable conditions. Non-compliance is adopted in ethnic republics and in relatively poor regions.","PeriodicalId":46570,"journal":{"name":"East European Politics","volume":"14 1","pages":"80 - 100"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83401343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-27DOI: 10.1080/21599165.2022.2138860
Elizabeth Chrun
ABSTRACT Under what circumstances can the European Union (EU) be a positive force for anticorruption reforms, even after accession? I demonstrate that the interaction of sustained pressure from the EU and domestic agency can provide the conditions under which anticorruption reforms can succeed even following a state’s formal entry into the Union. I demonstrate this argument through a diachronic analysis of Romania’s anticorruption reforms focusing on its anticorruption agency, the Direcţia Naţională Anticorupţie (DNA) pre-accession (2002–2006) and post-accession (2007–2016).
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