Depleting Democracies: Radical Right Impact on Parties, Policies, and Polities in Eastern Europe Minkenberg Michael
Depleting Democracies: Radical Right Impact on Parties, Policies, and Polities in Eastern Europe Minkenberg Michael How and to what degree have the radical right in Eastern Europe affected democratic…
Specifikacia Depleting Democracies: Radical Right Impact on Parties, Policies, and Polities in Eastern Europe Minkenberg Michael
Depleting Democracies: Radical Right Impact on Parties, Policies, and Polities in Eastern Europe Minkenberg Michael
How and to what degree have the radical right in Eastern Europe affected democratic quality? How do other parties respond if nationalism gains ground in a democracy?Depleting democracies explores these questions through the examples of three groups of countries where radical right parties are strong: Bulgaria and Slovakia; Hungary, Poland and Romania; and the Czech Republic and Estonia. What is the relationship between the radical right's electoral strength, its coalition and blackmail potential and its impact?
It argues that by undermining the liberal values of equality and inclusiveness, they drive a process of depletion Combining quantitative and qualitative methods, the book examines how radical right parties influenced mainstream parties' positions and public policy regarding vulnerable groups such as ethnic and national minorities and asylum-seekers between 2000 and 2016.