The Threat of Selective Democracy: Popular dissatisfaction and exclusionary strategy of elites in East Central and Southeastern Europe

dc.contributor.authorVARGA, Mihai
dc.contributor.authorFREYBERG-INAN, Annette
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-25T09:02:01Z
dc.date.available2013-01-25T09:02:01Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractThe large dissatisfaction of citizens with post-communist democracy in Central and Eastern Europe favors populist and antisystemic parties and movements. These accuse their rivals of various forms of corruption and prescribe anti-systemic cures, including the discretionary exclusion of their rivals from political life. Analyzing the situations in Poland, Romania, and Hungary more closely, we reveal a risk of the development of "selective democracy", in which key elites and their supporters redefine the borders of the polity in an exclusionary way, denying various groups 14 of ‘enemies’ legitimate access and representation and thereby undermining basic democratic principles.en
dc.identifier.citationSoutheastern Europe, 2012, 36, 3, 349–372en
dc.identifier.doi10.1163/18763332-03603004
dc.identifier.issn0094-4467
dc.identifier.issn1876-3332
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/25434
dc.language.isoenen
dc.titleThe Threat of Selective Democracy: Popular dissatisfaction and exclusionary strategy of elites in East Central and Southeastern Europeen
dc.typeArticleen
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