Declining Democracy in East-Central Europe
The Divide in the EU and Emerging Hard Populism
Attila Ágh
Introduction: From democracy decline to democracy renewal
PART I EUROPEANIZATION AND DEMOCRATIZATION OF ECE IN THE OLD WORLD ORDER
1 Systemic change in the Old World Order
2 Socio-economic transition and social disintegration
3 Political transition and the crisis of representative democracy
PART II THE COLLAPSE OF ECE DEMOCRACIES IN THE NEW WORLD ORDER
4 The New World Order and the desecuritization process in ECE
5 The failure of catching up and the credibility crisis in ECE
6 The rise of hard populism and the collapse of democracy in ECE
7 The ECE political system: Velvet dictatorship with façade democracy
8 ECE regional politics and the increasing core–periphery divide
9 The civilizational crisis in the ECE region
Postscript: Democracy renewal and alternatives for redemocratization