Centrist and Radical Right Populists in Central and Eastern Europe: Divergent Visions of History and the EU

Petrović, Nikola; Raos, Višeslav; Fila, Filip

doi:10.1080/14782804.2022.2051000

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“…The general belief is that representatives of conservatism and liberalism as two key positions differ in many aspects, such as cognitive skills and information processing (see Amodio et al, 2007). However, another feature peculiar to the area of CEE is an extensive inclination to and importance of political centrism (Petrović et al, 2022). The question is whether non-democratic or authoritarian tendencies may also be associated with centrist attitudes as occurring in CEE.…”

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Young adults fall for non-democratic ideology regardless of their education and political leaning: a data report from a Czech physiological study

Petlach

Ondruška

2023

Front. Psychol.

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Young adults fall for non-democratic ideology regardless of their education and political leaning: a data report from a Czech physiological study

Petlach

Ondruška

2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…10 Indeed, in discursively linking tropes in the national historical narrative, the EU is regularly compared to the Soviet Union. In the same vein, the liberalism that is associated with Brussels is accused of representing the Communist ideology (Petrović et al 2022). The official narration of the past is designed to foreground the defence of national sovereignty as the primary reason for the state.…”

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Competing Historical Narratives: Memory Politics, Identity, and Democracy in Germany and Poland

Schmidtke

2023

Social Sciences

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This article considers the growing rift between Western and Eastern Europe regarding the commemoration of Europe’s recent past and related historical narratives of nationhood that shape contemporary political preferences. More specifically, it investigates the connections between collective memory, national identities, and democratic cultures as they manifest themselves in Germany and Poland. With the help of an interpretative analysis focused on the discourse of political elites in both countries, the article identifies competing ways of interpreting 20th-century history and providing it with meaning for contemporary audiences. The national case studies of Germany and Poland present a contrasting logic in this respect: the promise of freedom and democracy in Poland is primarily narrated as the liberation from foreign rule and the desire for national independence. This narration is significantly built around a notion of popular sovereignty in which dissenting views of the heroic national past tend to be discredited and largely banned from public debate. In contrast, in Germany, the memory of fascism and the Holocaust has established a stronger rights-based approach to democracy in the liberal tradition and an openness to contesting historical narratives in the public domain.

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“…By contrast, emerging democracies in Eastern Europe often have fragile constitutional structures and limited experiences in aid provision. In several East European countries, PRR parties have captured many parliamentary seats and executive control through historical and Eurosceptic narratives that differ from the ideational profiles of their Western European counterparts (Petrović et al, 2022;Santana et al, 2020). Their electoral successes have rendered it unnecessary to gain mainstream parties' partnership or accommodation for influence.…”

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The punitive impact of radical right populism on foreign aid: immigration pressure and mainstream partnership

Suzuki

2023

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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This study investigates populist radical right (PRR) influence on aid amid widespread concerns about a potential connection between its rise and the reduction of aid allocation. Previous studies failed to address these concerns owing to the disuse of immigrant inflows as an intervening variable and a bilateral framework capable of investigating properties in donor and recipient countries. By analyzing panel data on Western European parliamentary democracies, the study demonstrates the PRR’s reducing effect via a coalitional pathway on bilateral aid to the recipients, failing to stem emigration into the donor countries. Further, analysis shows that such reduction intensifies in conjunction with the donors’ weak pluralistic institutions and the recipients’ sociocultural characteristics different from the ordinary citizens represented by the PRR. The findings make a novel contribution to the expanding literature on the PRR to integrate insights on the aid–immigration nexus, strategies for policy influence, and ideational profiles.

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Centrist and Radical Right Populists in Central and Eastern Europe: Divergent Visions of History and the EU

Cited by 7 publications

References 30 publications

Young adults fall for non-democratic ideology regardless of their education and political leaning: a data report from a Czech physiological study

Young adults fall for non-democratic ideology regardless of their education and political leaning: a data report from a Czech physiological study

Competing Historical Narratives: Memory Politics, Identity, and Democracy in Germany and Poland

The punitive impact of radical right populism on foreign aid: immigration pressure and mainstream partnership

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