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List of contents
1. Democratic innovations in Central and Eastern Europe: expanding the research agenda Sergiu Gherghina, Joakim Ekman and Olena Podolian 2. The role of partisan cues on voters’ mobilization in a referendum Miroslav Nemčok, Peter Spáč & Petr Voda 3. And yet it matters: referendum campaigns and vote decision in Eastern Europe Sergiu Gherghina and Nanuli Silagadze 4. ‘Never just a local war’: explaining the failure of a mayor’s recall referendum Sergiu Mișcoiu 5. Direct democracy in an increasingly illiberal setting: the case of the Hungarian national referendum Zoltán Tibor Pállinger 6. Deliberative democracy and trust in political institutions at the local level: evidence from participatory budgeting experiment in Ukraine Dmytro Volodin 7. Attrition in long-term deliberative processes. The neighbourhood consultative councils in Timisoara Adrian Schiffbeck 8. Democratic innovations in Serbia: a misplaced trust in technology Ivana Damnjanović
About the author
Sergiu Gherghina is a Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the Department of Politics at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. His research interests lie in party politics, legislative and voting behavior, democratization, and the use of direct democracy.
Joakim Ekman is a Professor of Political Science, with a special focus on the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe, at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) at Södertörn University, Sweden. His research interests comprise democratisation, public opinion and political participation.
Olena Podolian is a Ph.D. candidate at Södertörn University in Stockholm, Sweden. She holds an M.A. in Political Science from the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and an M.Sc. in Russian, Central and East European Studies from the University of Glasgow.
Summary
Democratic innovations in Central and Eastern Europe expands research on democratic innovations by looking specifically at different forms of democratic innovations in the Central and Eastern Europe.
