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Vulnerabilities, Accession Hangovers and the Presidency Role: Explaining New EU Member States' Choices for Europe. CES Central & Eastern Europe Working Paper Series No. 68, February 2010
Get PDFWhat shapes a European Union member state's preferences and why do some states seem much more enthusiastic about further integration in some policy areas than others? This paper examines the factors which shape the preferences of three of the 2004 entrants: Slovakia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic. Based on a detailed study of government and party documents complemented by a series of 40 semi-structured interviews, I argue that whilst there is merit in many of the explanations used to explain national preference formation in the longer-established member states, the key to preference formation lies in vulnerabilities and perceived weakness
Having won Slovenia’s elections, political newcomer Miro Cerar will have to make tough decisions if he is to bring stability to a new government
No full textSlovenia held parliamentary elections on 13 July. Alenka Krašovec and Tim Haughton assess the results of the election, which saw a newly formed party led by Miro Cerar win the largest share of the vote. They write that the key challenge for Cerar will be to retain his new party’s appeal while making the tough decisions necessary to solve the country’s economic problems
Haughton Elevator Company, Toledo, Ohio [approximately 1955]
No full textPhoto taken around 1955 showing employees (holding trophies) of Haughton Elevator Company located on Spencer Street in Toledo, Ohio. Terms associated with the photograph are: Haughton Elevator Company (Toledo, Ohio) | trophy | Spencer Street (Toledo, Ohio) | Kennelly, Tim | Doyle, Pat | Chubner, Frank | DeLong, Bob | Wojtkowiak, Richard | Hess, Larry | Case, Gary | Czerniak, Red | Champion, Scot
Sticking together - Explaining comparative centre-right party success in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe
No full textIn this article, we attempt to explain varying patterns of centre-right success between 1990 and 2006 in three post-communist states - Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. Success is understood as the ability to construct broad and durable parties. Both macro-institutional explanations, focusing on executive structures and electoral systems, and historical-structural explanations, stressing communist regime legacies, have limited power to explain the observed variance. The introduction of a more sophisticated framework of path dependence, stressing the role of choices and political crafting at critical junctures, adds some insight, but the lack of strong 'lock-in' mechanisms required by such approaches makes such a model unconvincing when applied to Central and Eastern European centre-right party development. Other explanations that stress the importance of elite characteristics and capacity are needed to supplement the shortcomings of these approaches, in particular: (a) the presence of cohesive elites able to act as the nucleus of new centre-right formations; and (b) the ability of such elites to craft broad integrative ideological narratives that can transcend diverse ideological positions and unite broad swathes of centre-right activists and voters
Book review: The new party challenge: changing cycles of party birth and death in central Europe and beyond by Tim Haughton and Kevin Deegan-Krause
No full textIn The New Party Challenge: Changing Cycles of Party Birth and Death in Central Europe and Beyond, Tim Haughton and Kevin Deegan-Krause present an in-depth look at how new parties emerge, fight and sometimes die out in the post-Communist democracies of the European Union. This is an excellent piece of empirical work, writes Ben Margulies, offering a valuable reminder of how political science can transcend simple explanations and study our world from different angles. The New Party Challenge: Changing Cycles of Party Birth and Death in Central Europe and Beyond. Tim Haughton and Kevin Deegan-Krause. Oxford University. Press. 2020
The European elections in Central and Eastern EU states illustrate that the rise of Euroscepticism was far from uniform across Europe
No full textThe key story to emerge from the European elections in countries like France and the UK was the rise of Euroscepticism, but does this narrative apply to all countries across Europe? Tim Haughton and Tereza Novotna present an analysis of the elections in four Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries: Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia. They write that while there has been a tendency to regard CEE states as distinct from those in Western Europe, this perspective is largely outdated and analyses of EU-wide political trends should pay as much attention to smaller states in the East as they do to larger states in the West. When adopting this perspective it is apparent that the rise in Euroscepticism was not a Europe-wide trend, but rather confined to individual countries
Tim Haughton and Kevin Deegan-Krause: The New Party Challenge: Changing Cycles of Party Birth and Death in Central Europe and Beyond
No full textTim Haughton and Kevin Deegan-Krause: THE NEW PARTY CHALLENGE: CHANGING CYCLES OF PARTY BIRTH AND DEATH IN CENTRAL EUROPE AND BEYOND. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2020. 290 pages
Nicholas Martin, Tim Haughton y Pierre Purseigle (eds.): Aftermath. Legacies and Memories of War in Europe, 1918-1945-1989, Surrey, Ashgate, 2014
Get PDFReseña de la obra Nicholas MARTIN, Tim HAUGHTON y Pierre PURSEIGLE (eds.): Aftermath. Legacies and Memories of War in Europe, 1918-1945-1989, Surrey, Ashgate, 2014. A cargo de Alejandro Pérez-Olivares
All tomorrow’s parties? The future (and past) of politics in Eastern Europe
No full textcontribution à un site webIn this post we present a discussion between Kevin Deegan-Krause, Tim Haughton, Stephen Whitefield and Jan Rovný on the current state of knowledge on political parties in Eastern Europe, what we still needs to learned and how researchers can get there. The discussion had its origins in the Whither Eastern Europe conference held at the University of Florida in January 2014 and accompanies a special section on parties in the forthcoming issue of East European Politics and Societies
Aftermath : legacies and memories of war in Europe
No full textFocusing on three of the defining moments of the twentieth century - the end of the two World Wars and the collapse of the Iron Curtain - this volume presents a rich collection of authoritative essays, covering a wide range of thematic, regional, temporal and methodological perspectives. By re-examining the traumatic legacies of the century’s three major conflicts, the volume illuminates a number of recurrent yet differentiated ideas concerning memorialisation, mythologisation, mobilisation, commemoration and confrontation, reconstruction and representation in the aftermath of conflict. The post-conflict relationship between the living and the dead, the contestation of memories and legacies of war in cultural and political discourses, and the significance of generations are key threads binding the collection together. While not claiming to be the definitive study of so vast a subject, the collection nevertheless presents a series of enlightening historical and cultural perspectives from leading scholars in the field, and it pushes back the boundaries of the burgeoning field of the study of legacies and memories of war. Bringing together historians, literary scholars, political scientists and cultural studies experts to discuss the legacies and memories of war in Europe (1918-1945-1989), the collection makes an important contribution to the ongoing interdisciplinary conversation regarding the interwoven legacies of twentieth-century Europe’s three major conflicts
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