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":null,"pages":null},"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
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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":null,"pages":null},"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).
{"title":"Help me help you: how the EU made Romania’s anticorruption reforms a (temporary) success","authors":"Elizabeth Chrun","doi":"10.1080/21599165.2022.2138860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2022.2138860","url":null,"abstract":"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).","PeriodicalId":46570,"journal":{"name":"East European Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83516658","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 : 2022-10-26DOI: 10.1080/21599165.2022.2138352
J. Crotty, S. Ljubownikow
ABSTRACT Against the backdrop of increasing public awareness of global environmental challenges, this paper examines the potential for collaborative environmental governance in the Russian Federation. To do so, we examine regulators’ and firms’ perceptions of, and collaborations with, environmental non-governmental organizations (eNGOs) in three Russian regions. Our findings highlight that Russian firms rarely collaborateor include eNGOs in environmentally-focused activities because they perceive them to be ineffective, invisible, or irrelevant. Russian regulators do engage with eNGOs, but not as equal partners in the form of collaborative governance arrangements; regulators reduce eNGOs to the positions of subordinates and/or assistants.
{"title":"Environmental governance in the Russian federation: firms and regulator perception of environmental NGOs","authors":"J. Crotty, S. Ljubownikow","doi":"10.1080/21599165.2022.2138352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2022.2138352","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Against the backdrop of increasing public awareness of global environmental challenges, this paper examines the potential for collaborative environmental governance in the Russian Federation. To do so, we examine regulators’ and firms’ perceptions of, and collaborations with, environmental non-governmental organizations (eNGOs) in three Russian regions. Our findings highlight that Russian firms rarely collaborateor include eNGOs in environmentally-focused activities because they perceive them to be ineffective, invisible, or irrelevant. Russian regulators do engage with eNGOs, but not as equal partners in the form of collaborative governance arrangements; regulators reduce eNGOs to the positions of subordinates and/or assistants.","PeriodicalId":46570,"journal":{"name":"East European Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86921984","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 : 2022-10-18DOI: 10.1080/21599165.2022.2136653
Kristina Muhhina
ABSTRACT This article explores the potential of the EU’s sectoral cooperation for the advancement of good governance by exploring the relationship between alternative policy designs and types of target country regime contexts in the Eastern neighbourhood. Informed by the scholarship on policy instrument choice and political settlements analysis, this research offers a framework of policy designs that match instrument mixes with specific implementation arenas. Once rigorously tested, it will be able to shed light on how the ENP’s sectoral cooperation could be attuned to elicit desirable feedback effects on governance improvement in the Eastern neighbourhood.
{"title":"Governance improvement by sectoral cooperation: toward a framework of policy designs for the Eastern neighbourhood","authors":"Kristina Muhhina","doi":"10.1080/21599165.2022.2136653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2022.2136653","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores the potential of the EU’s sectoral cooperation for the advancement of good governance by exploring the relationship between alternative policy designs and types of target country regime contexts in the Eastern neighbourhood. Informed by the scholarship on policy instrument choice and political settlements analysis, this research offers a framework of policy designs that match instrument mixes with specific implementation arenas. Once rigorously tested, it will be able to shed light on how the ENP’s sectoral cooperation could be attuned to elicit desirable feedback effects on governance improvement in the Eastern neighbourhood.","PeriodicalId":46570,"journal":{"name":"East European Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77893591","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 : 2022-10-17DOI: 10.1080/21599165.2022.2134122
Sabine Kropp, Stanislav Klimovich, U. Pape
ABSTRACT Russian companies, with their long-established tradition of social responsibility, still operate social and infrastructure projects at the regional and local levels. Adopting the framework of organisational “bricolage”, this article explores how managers combine various ideas and understandings about social responsibility, creating narratives addressed to multiple audiences, including the market, state, employees and local community. The analysis builds on 116 semi-structured interviews with company representatives and stakeholders, conducted in Russia in 2018. The empirical findings show that managers construct a bricolage of social responsibility that prioritises business interests and highlights loyalty towards the authorities; Soviet-era remnants are of minor importance.
{"title":"Legitimation strategies of Russian companies: a bricolage of social responsibility","authors":"Sabine Kropp, Stanislav Klimovich, U. Pape","doi":"10.1080/21599165.2022.2134122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2022.2134122","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Russian companies, with their long-established tradition of social responsibility, still operate social and infrastructure projects at the regional and local levels. Adopting the framework of organisational “bricolage”, this article explores how managers combine various ideas and understandings about social responsibility, creating narratives addressed to multiple audiences, including the market, state, employees and local community. The analysis builds on 116 semi-structured interviews with company representatives and stakeholders, conducted in Russia in 2018. The empirical findings show that managers construct a bricolage of social responsibility that prioritises business interests and highlights loyalty towards the authorities; Soviet-era remnants are of minor importance.","PeriodicalId":46570,"journal":{"name":"East European Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76075561","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 : 2022-10-11DOI: 10.1080/21599165.2022.2132478
Ilia Viatkin
ABSTRACT Explanations of how populist radical right parties (PRRPs) get into government, especially in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), have so far received limited scholarly attention. This article explores the conditions of PRRPs’ cabinet inclusion in CEE from the perspective of national party systems by examining 34 instances of coalition government formation in 11 CEE states during 2000–2019 using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). The inferred causal paths demonstrate that PRRPs join coalition cabinets in party systems, in which they either perform the role of “radical but necessary partners” or serve as the “like-minded juniors” for formateur parties.
{"title":"Participation of populist radical right parties in coalition governments of Central and Eastern Europe: do national party systems matter?","authors":"Ilia Viatkin","doi":"10.1080/21599165.2022.2132478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2022.2132478","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Explanations of how populist radical right parties (PRRPs) get into government, especially in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), have so far received limited scholarly attention. This article explores the conditions of PRRPs’ cabinet inclusion in CEE from the perspective of national party systems by examining 34 instances of coalition government formation in 11 CEE states during 2000–2019 using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). The inferred causal paths demonstrate that PRRPs join coalition cabinets in party systems, in which they either perform the role of “radical but necessary partners” or serve as the “like-minded juniors” for formateur parties.","PeriodicalId":46570,"journal":{"name":"East European Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85391876","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 : 2022-10-03DOI: 10.1080/21599165.2022.2126834
Kálmán Pócza, Zsófia Papp, G. Dobos, Attila Gyulai
ABSTRACT The article addresses the budgetary implications of constitutional adjudication by analysing the decisions of the Hungarian Constitutional Court (HCC) between 1990 and 2018. Our results highlight that the HCC does not narrow the parliamentary majority's room to manoeuvre by blocking policies with serious budgetary consequences, and the potential budgetary consequences of a decision do not weigh in with the judicial output. At the same time, right-leaning courts are more likely to declare a law unconstitutional passed by a left-wing parliamentary majority, whereas left-wing courts adjudicate unconstitutionality with about roughly the same likelihood in cases of right- and left-leaning parliaments.
{"title":"Do constitutional courts restrict government policy? The effects of budgetary implications and bloc-politics in the Hungarian Constitutional Court's decisions between 1990 and 2018","authors":"Kálmán Pócza, Zsófia Papp, G. Dobos, Attila Gyulai","doi":"10.1080/21599165.2022.2126834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2022.2126834","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article addresses the budgetary implications of constitutional adjudication by analysing the decisions of the Hungarian Constitutional Court (HCC) between 1990 and 2018. Our results highlight that the HCC does not narrow the parliamentary majority's room to manoeuvre by blocking policies with serious budgetary consequences, and the potential budgetary consequences of a decision do not weigh in with the judicial output. At the same time, right-leaning courts are more likely to declare a law unconstitutional passed by a left-wing parliamentary majority, whereas left-wing courts adjudicate unconstitutionality with about roughly the same likelihood in cases of right- and left-leaning parliaments.","PeriodicalId":46570,"journal":{"name":"East European Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90276159","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}
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