From a Politics of No Alternative to a Politics of Fear

Weinman, Michael; Vormann, Boris

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“…35 Yet since the 2010s, Poland and Hungary have lost the status of "front runner" that regional and international organizations and academics attributed them in acknowledgement of the rapid process of change prior to 2004. In the three countries, for different reasons, a few years after joining the EU, governments have initiated a process of de-Europeanization 36 by replacing the legislation adopted in the context of the enlargement with new disputed provisions followed by paths towards autocracy, 37 giving rise to concerns not only at the domestic level but also among EU institutions and regional and international organizations. 38 The transformations at stake are challenging key research findings in comparative politics and EU studies requiring an in-depth analysis of this process of change in reverse.…”

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Explaining judges’ opposition when judicial independence is undermined: insights from Poland, Romania, and Hungary

Puleo,

Coman

2023

Democratization

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Over the past decade, governing parties in Central and Eastern Europe have dismantled liberal democracy, violating the rule of law and limiting the power of judges. This article examines the opposition to these transformations, focusing on the role of judges in Poland, Hungary, and Romania. Drawing on an original survey, as well as a set of interviews with judges, the article shows that while in Poland judges have developed a unified opposition to the government in defending their independence, in Romania, in contrast, governmental measures have polarized judges into a divided opposition, while their mobilization has been rather nonexistent in Hungary. Why do judges oppose governmental action limiting judicial independence in some contexts but not in others? The article shows that the nature and the sequencing of domestic transformations, coupled with ideational factors and interests-based calculations, explain judges' opposition at the collective and individual levels.

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Explaining judges’ opposition when judicial independence is undermined: insights from Poland, Romania, and Hungary

Puleo,

Coman

2023

Democratization

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“…In almost every case, these authoritarian regimes have hijacked a widespread concern with the effects of neoliberal globalization, the loss of political agency to external forces and the rise in precarity. However, instead of redistribution, the solution offered rests on a strong leader and an appeal to what Weinman and Vormann describe as a ‘commitment to popular sovereignty around a narrowly-defined demos’ (Weinman and Vormann, 2020: 15).…”

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Sliding from majoritarianism toward fascism: Educating India under the Modi regime

Bhatty

Sundar

2020

International Sociology

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While the Modi regime in India shares many exclusionary features in common with authoritarian populists elsewhere, one distinguishing feature is its umbilical relationship to the semi-fascist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), whose long-term goal has been the establishment of a Hindu rashtra (nation). One of the major instruments for achieving this has been education, with the RSS seeing cultural hegemony as more foundational than political control. This article examines the transformation of school and higher education under the Modi regime in an effort to bring India more in line with the Hindu nationalist vision of its parent body, and the degree to which being in government supports or creates contradictions with the RSS vision.

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Populist Mobilization in the United States: Adding Political Economy to Cultural Explanations

Lammert¹,

Vormann²

2021

The Palgrave Handbook of Populism

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From a Politics of No Alternative to a Politics of Fear

Cited by 5 publications

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Explaining judges’ opposition when judicial independence is undermined: insights from Poland, Romania, and Hungary

Explaining judges’ opposition when judicial independence is undermined: insights from Poland, Romania, and Hungary

Sliding from majoritarianism toward fascism: Educating India under the Modi regime

Populist Mobilization in the United States: Adding Political Economy to Cultural Explanations

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