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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “astrid lorenz”
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  • Politics and Society in Romania

    The Beginning of a New Transition?

    Edited by Astrid Lorenz, Daniela-Maria Mariș ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Romania is the sixth-largest country in the European Union by population. However, after decades of democratization and integration into the Euro-Atlantic organizations, many Romanian voters now seem willing to abandon this path of development. Does this change of direction indicate the beginning of a transition to a new era? This book summarizes how politics and society in Romania changed after ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • Rethinking Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe

    Insights from Education and Political Research

    by Veronika Stein, Christian Pentzold, Janusz Grygieńć, Joanna Podgórska-Rykała, Astrid Lorenz, Lisa Anders, Hendrik Träger, Mariana S. Gustafsson, Lasse Hansen, Claire Moulin-Doos, Vasil Navumau, Andrea Szukala, Dietmar Müller, Lea Fobel, Olga Matveieva, Johannes Schuster, Bojan Baća, Jelena Vasiljević, Tamara Pavasović Trošt, Milica Nikolic ...
    Series series Bristol Studies in Comparative and International Education
    This book explores the diverse landscape of citizenship practices in Central and Eastern Europe, an area often overlooked in research.Through an interdisciplinary lens, the contributors explore how education and political participation shape these practices in a region marked by historical and social complexities. The book offers fresh insights into how citizenship is perceived and practiced, ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Politics and Society in Hungary

    (De-)Democratization, Orbán and the EU

    Edited by Ellen Bos, Astrid Lorenz ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Hungary was once a frontrunner of democratization. However, since Viktor Orbán came to power in 2010, the country has been the subject of critical media coverage and concerns due to illiberal policies and anti-EU rhetoric. The book helps to analyze and evaluate the developments by providing relevant case knowledge. It provides sound insights into Hungary’s system of government, society, parties ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Czech Democracy in Crisis

    Edited by Astrid Lorenz, Hana Formánková ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    "Democracy theories and comparative political science have been challenged within the last decade by an unexpected democratic deficit and the rise of populism in the new EU-member states. This volume written by German and Czech scholars gives some food for thought for solving these research problems by means of thorough analyses of the polity, the politics and selected policies of the Czech ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Narrating the Rule of Law

    Patterns in East Central European Parliaments

    by Astrid Lorenz, Lisa H. Anders, Dietmar Müller, Jan Němec ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book deals with the backsliding of the rule of law in Poland and Hungary as one of the main problems of the EU. What began as a national phenomenon has become a general threat for the EU because the respect for the rule of law is a prerequisite for all other values of the EU enshrined in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union. Media coverage and scholarly publications on these ... Read more

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  • EU Citizenship Beyond Urban Centres

    Perceptions and Practices of Young People in East Central European Peripheral Areas

    Edited by Astrid Lorenz, Lisa H. Anders ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book provides in-depth and comparative analyses of how young people in peripheral areas in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania perceive EU citizenship. It also informs the reader about the challenges faced by EU Youth Dialogue projects that aim at promoting active (EU) citizenship in these areas and it offers context-specific recommendations for local, ... Read more

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  • Illiberal Trends and Anti-EU Politics in East Central Europe

    Edited by Astrid Lorenz, Lisa H. Anders ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book provides an in-depth look into the background of rule of law problems and the open defiance of EU law in East Central European countries. Current illiberal trends and anti-EU politics have the potential to undermine mutual trust between member states and fundamentally change the EU. It is therefore crucial to understand their domestic causes, context conditions, specific ... Read more

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    Forms of Rule in the Post-Soviet Space

    by Margarete Klein, Hans-Henning Schröder ...
    Over the last decade the "transition paradigm", which is based on the conviction that authoritarian political systems would over time necessarily develop into democracies, has been subjected to serious criticism. The complex political and societal developments in the post-Soviet region in particular have exposed flaws in the claim that a shift from authoritarianism to democracy is inevitable. ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Changing Transatlantic Security Relations

    Do the U.S, the EU and Russia Form a New Strategic Triangle?

    Edited by Jan Hallenberg, Håkan Karlsson ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    This new book shows how the idea of a strategic triangle can illuminate the security relationships among the United States, the European Union and Russia in the greater transatlantic sphere.This concept highlights how the relationships among these three actors may, on some issues, be closely related. A central question also follows directly from the use of the notion of the triangle: does the EU ... Read more

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  • China-Europe Relations

    Perceptions, Policies and Prospects

    Edited by David Shambaugh, Eberhard Sandschneider, Zhou Hong ...
    The fast-developing relationship between China and Europe has become one of the most important in international affairs. China-Europe Relations takes an innovative and insightful look at this phenomenon, examining:the state of Chinese studies in Europe and European studies in Chinathe decision-making behind the EU’s China policy, and what the Chinese perceptions and assessments are of Europe that ... Read more

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  • Education in Political Science

    Discovering a neglected field

    Edited by Anja P. Jakobi, Kerstin Martens, Klaus Dieter Wolf ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    This pioneering volume is devoted to the analysis of education from the perspective of political science, applying the full range of the discipline’s analytical perspectives and methodological tools.The contributions demonstrate how education policy can be explored systematically from a variety of political science perspectives: comparative politics, public policy analysis and public ... Read more

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  • The Communist Road to Capitalism

    How Social Unrest and Containment Have Pushed China s (R)evolution since 1949

    by Ralf Ruckus ...
    The Communist Road to Capitalism is an in-depth exploration of the central role that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) played in China's transformation from socialism to capitalism. Many interpret this transition as the result of the 'betrayal' by reformers in the Party who wanted to establish capitalism. Ralf Ruckus reveals that the planned economy of socialist China not only created a class ... Read more

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