The Role of Local Political Elites in East Central Europe

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roxana Marin
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Local Leadership ◽  
Developing Region ◽  
Transitional Democracies

How does the elite continue to affect the evolution of local communities in the developing region of former Sovietized Europe? This book is concerned with the issue of local leadership in the countries of East-Central Europe. It is an attempt to examine, with a comparative method, the profile and the role of the local political elites (members of the Municipal Councils) in six towns in six transitional democracies of the region.

Latin in Poland and East-Central Europe: Continuity and Discontinuity

1994 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 305-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerzy Axer ◽  
Maria Bozenna Fedewicz
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Cultural Community ◽  
Main Thesis ◽  
Continuity And Discontinuity

The paper deals with the role of Latin and the whole Latin tradition (Latinitas) in East and Central Europe. The main thesis is that, when viewed from various perspectives, this tradition proves to be an integrating as well as a disintegrating factor in the cultural community of the region. Concluding remarks concern the relevance of the Latin heritage for preservation of the cultural identity in East-Central Europe.

Commentary: In Step with the Times: A Slovak Perspective

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 198-207
Author(s):  
M. Mark Stolarik
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War I ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
North American ◽  
World War ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Times

Paul robert magocsi has written a thought-provoking essay on the role of North American political diasporas from east central Europe before and after the seminal years of 1918 and 1989. While he showed that the pre-1918 diasporas had a major impact on the future of east central Europe during and after World War I, he found very little evidence of a similar impact before and after 1989. He suggested that we look closely at 1989 to see what, if any, impact such diasporas had at the end of the twentieth century.

3. Voting Behaviour

2020 ◽  
pp. 57-78
Author(s):  
Erik Tillman
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Spatial Models ◽  
Voting Behaviour ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Ideological Congruence ◽  
Voting Models

This chapter examines theories and evidence of voting behaviour in Europe. Sociological models examine the role of political cleavages such as class in the development of long-term attachments between parties and voters. Rationalist models examine the sources of short-term changes in voting behaviour with spatial models focusing on the ideological congruence between parties and voters and performance voting models emphasizing evaluations of incumbent records in office. Recent decades have seen debates about a possible realignment of voter loyalties or a dealignment of voter attachments. The final section focuses on how the legacy of communism has structured the development of voting behaviour in East-Central Europe.

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