236 research outputs found
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
Agile new product development - a systematic literature review
No full textAuthor Aleks Svetoslavov YotovMasterarbeit Johannes Kepler Universität Linz 2025Arbeit auf den öffentlichen PCs in den Bibliotheken der JKU+Medizin abrufba
Taking stock of the impact of Covid-19 on Polish politics
No full textHow has the Covid-19 pandemic affected Polish politics? Aleks Szczerbiak writes that although misgivings about the government’s handling of the crisis contributed to a significant fall in support for Law and Justice, voters will want to quickly move on from the issue if the pandemic subsides. But if the crisis drags on beyond the summer, it could undercut the government’s ambitious post-pandemic recovery plans and exacerbate tensions within the ruling camp
Aleks Sierz, Good Nights Out
No full textAleks Sierz, author and theatre critic, also teaches courses on postwar British theatre for various universities, in the UK and in Germany. His most famous contribution to research on drama is probably his reference study of “in-yer-face theatre” (In-Yer-Face Theatre. British Drama Today, Faber, 2001), but he also published books on prominent playwrights (Martin Crimp, John Osborne), as well as more extensive studies of contemporary theatre in Britain (Rewriting the Nation: British Theatre To..
Will Poland’s opposition contest the next election as a single bloc?
No full textPoland’s next parliamentary elections are due to be held in autumn 2023. Aleks Szczerbiak assesses whether the country’s opposition parties are likely to form a united bloc to challenge the incumbent Law and Justice government
What are the prospects for Poland's radical right Confederation?
No full textPoland's October election saw the unexpected success of a strongly pro-free market and nationalist radical right challenger to the ruling party. However, as Aleks Szczerbiak writes, the new grouping's youthful, anti-establishment core electorate is notoriously fickle, and its ideological eclecticism - and the presence of highly controversial personalities among its leaders - makes it an unstable political construct
Poland’s presidential election will the government collapse?
No full textPoland’s government is in danger of losing its parliamentary majority following a bitter dispute over the timing of the country’s presidential election, writes Aleks Szczerbiak. But although the decomposition of the governing camp could herald a major political re-alignment, it is difficult to see a stable alternative administration emerging in the current parliament
What are the prospects for the Polish opposition?
No full textThe Polish liberal-centrist opposition’s future prospects depend critically upon how Warsaw’s Mayor builds on the political capital derived from his strong presidential election challenge writes Aleks Szczerbiak. But there are question marks over his proposed new civic movement’s relationship with the main opposition party, and he faces a challenge from an insurgent TV presenter-turned-politician, as well as strategic dilemmas over which model of opposition to adopt and how to develop an attractive alternative programme
The Post-Enlargement Migration Experience in the Baltic Labor Markets
No full textWe use Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian LFS data (2002-2007) complemented with several other surveys to compare the profile of Baltic temporary workers abroad before and after EU accession with that of stayers and return migrants. Determinants of migration and return, as well as selection issues are discussed. Post-enlargement migrants from all three countries were significantly less educated than stayers. After accession, medium-educated workers were most likely to move, other things equal, and human capital became increasingly less pro-migration over time. Return migrants differ from all movers in many ways and, in particular, are more educated. Although brain drain was not a feature of post-accession Baltic migration, brain waste was: during 2006-2007, the proportion of overqualified among high-educated movers ranged from five out of ten for Latvia to seven out of ten for Lithuania, but it was around one fifth among high-educated stayers in all three countries. We find that the free movement of labor partially introduced in 2004 (and expanded in 2006) for EU citizens, although excluding Baltic non-citizens, brought about significant changes in how ethnicity and citizenship affect workers' mobility. We conclude by discussing migration perspectives in the context of recession.return migrants, Baltic countries, EU enlargement, migration, ethnic minorities
What does Andrzej Duda’s presidential election victory mean for Polish politics?
No full textPoland’s ruling party is hoping that its presidential election victory will encourage domestic and international elites to accept it has a clear three-year run controlling all the levers of state power to continue with its radical state reconstruction programme, writes Aleks Szczerbiak. The reelected President also has a huge personal mandate, giving him the potential to carve out a more independent role, but to do so he will need a more distinctive political agenda and a stronger support base
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