Browsing BI Open by Author "Bakke, Elisabeth"
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The EU’s Enfants Terribles: Democratic Backsliding in Central Europe since 2010
Bakke, Elisabeth; Sitter, Nick (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In the academic literature, Hungary and Poland are often cited as paradigmatic cases of democratic backsliding. However, as the backsliding narrative gained traction, the term has been applied to the rest of the post-communist ... -
Where do parties go when they die? The fate of failed parties in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary 1992–2013
Bakke, Elisabeth; Sitter, Nick (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Thirty-nine parties have crossed the electoral threshold in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary since the collapse of communism. Twenty-three of them subsequently failed. Of these, only two parties managed to return ... -
Why do parties fail? Cleavages, government fatigue and electoral failure in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary 1992–2012
Bakke, Elisabeth; Sitter, Nick (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)During the first two decades after the collapse of communism 37 political parties won representation in the Czech, Slovak or Hungarian Parliaments. By 2012, 22 of these parties had failed in the sense that they have fallen ...