The Deconsolidation of Democracy in East‑Central Europe: The New World Order and the EU’s Geopolitical Crisis

In recent decades, the most remarkable feature of East-Central European (ECE) states has been their engagement in a deconsolidation process that necessitates the reconceptualising of European Studies and the theory of democracy. In the early ’90s, during the “revolution of high expectations,” consol...

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Autor principal:	Ágh Attila
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Publicado:	Sciendo 2016
Materias:	democracy deconsolidation east central europe geopolitical crisis eu Political science J
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:188f16e409974d20966fd2091e2356d72021-12-02T15:27:45ZThe Deconsolidation of Democracy in East‑Central Europe: The New World Order and the EU’s Geopolitical Crisis1801-342210.1515/pce-2016-0015https://doaj.org/article/188f16e409974d20966fd2091e2356d72016-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/pce-2016-0015https://doaj.org/toc/1801-3422In recent decades, the most remarkable feature of East-Central European (ECE) states has been their engagement in a deconsolidation process that necessitates the reconceptualising of European Studies and the theory of democracy. In the early ’90s, during the “revolution of high expectations,” consolidation was the key term in the conceptual framework of the transitology paradigm, but this approach was questioned increasingly in the 2000s and rejected in the 2010s. In its place, deconsolidation was introduced as one of a wide array of similar terms referring to the decline, backsliding or regression of democracy and later as one of a whole “other” family of opposite terms like (semi-)authoritarian system and competitive/elected autocracy. Indeed, rather than a transition to democracy, a tendency to transition to authoritarian rule has been observed in the ECE states in general and in Poland and Hungary in particular. In the last quarter century, the twin terms of Europeanisation and democratisation, which denote normative approaches, have been the main conceptual pillars of analyses of the ECE states. It turns out, however, that the opposite processes of de-Europeanisation and de-democratisation can now also be observed in these countries.Ágh AttilaSciendoarticledemocracydeconsolidationeast central europegeopolitical crisiseuPolitical scienceJCSENSKPolitics in Central Europe, Vol 12, Iss 3, Pp 7-36 (2016)
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description	In recent decades, the most remarkable feature of East-Central European (ECE) states has been their engagement in a deconsolidation process that necessitates the reconceptualising of European Studies and the theory of democracy. In the early ’90s, during the “revolution of high expectations,” consolidation was the key term in the conceptual framework of the transitology paradigm, but this approach was questioned increasingly in the 2000s and rejected in the 2010s. In its place, deconsolidation was introduced as one of a wide array of similar terms referring to the decline, backsliding or regression of democracy and later as one of a whole “other” family of opposite terms like (semi-)authoritarian system and competitive/elected autocracy. Indeed, rather than a transition to democracy, a tendency to transition to authoritarian rule has been observed in the ECE states in general and in Poland and Hungary in particular. In the last quarter century, the twin terms of Europeanisation and democratisation, which denote normative approaches, have been the main conceptual pillars of analyses of the ECE states. It turns out, however, that the opposite processes of de-Europeanisation and de-democratisation can now also be observed in these countries.
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title	The Deconsolidation of Democracy in East‑Central Europe: The New World Order and the EU’s Geopolitical Crisis
title_short	The Deconsolidation of Democracy in East‑Central Europe: The New World Order and the EU’s Geopolitical Crisis
title_full	The Deconsolidation of Democracy in East‑Central Europe: The New World Order and the EU’s Geopolitical Crisis
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The Deconsolidation of Democracy in East‑Central Europe: The New World Order and the EU’s Geopolitical Crisis

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