What is Going on with Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe?
Episode 20 of the People, Power, Politics podcast features a fascinating discussion about the recent democratic pathologies in Central and Easter Europe.
After being the posterchild of democratization, today Central and Eastern Europe is often seen as the region of democratic backsliding. In this episode, Prof Milada Vachudova (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Prof Tim Haughton talk with host Dr Licia Cianetti about how ethno-populist and illiberal politicians have been reshaping the region’s politics, how people have gone to the streets to protest against anti-democratic and corrupt governments, and the many ways in which post-communist Europe is actually not that different from democracies in the “West.”
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