Anti-gender actors in East-Central Europe (ECE) too claim that gender is an ideological colonization. In this article, contrasting these accusations with actually existing power relations of the global and European architecture, I discuss whether they are – at least to some extent based on social realities. Neither anti-gender campaigns nor rise illiberal forces ECE phenomena per se should not ...

I examine why a majority of Israel’s legislators voted for direct election of the prime minister, reforming the electoral system that vested them with power. The analysis incorporates coalitional politics, strategic voting, and voter preferences over non-policy issues such as candidate charisma. The model generates novel hypotheses that are tested against empirical evidence. It explains five em...

Abstract In the past decade, several publications in gender studies have been grappling with conservative and reactionary politics claiming to defend women sexual minorities against immigrants. Sara Farris’s concept of femonationalism offers explanations for paradox far-right actors pretending care about some feminists making racist statements. Yet methodology as well her arguments show importa...

Democratic theory argues that individuals should have their policy preferences equally represented in politics. Research on opinion congruence has often found, however, political parties’ views are more likely to align with those of higher-income and higher educated citizens. We argue this conclusion does not account for heterogeneity among parties. Based an integrated dataset containing the po...

Abstract Why and when do today's Far‐Right groups cooperate across national boundaries? This paper seeks to provide answers these questions by examining a deviant rather than representative case: the transnational connections between right‐wing intellectuals in South Korea Japan. Analysing recent publication of highly controversial provocative book politics around it, we emphasise roles process...

In Central and Eastern Europe populist regimes are attracting attention as a result of the traumatic legacy communism, subsequent overburdening reforms exhausting systemic transformation, resurgence ever-lurking nationalism, regional conservatism, parochialism cultural chauvinism, and/or an example structural shortcomings young democracies at borders civilization. The subject literature also in...

This article highlights how the recent discourse of ‘the new normal’ – re-initiated and widely used in context COVID-19 pandemic national international media political marks advent a approach to ‘crisis’ normalisation far-right populist politics. Drawing on example analysis ‘policy communication’ genres pre-legitimising Polish right-wing government’s actions aimed at curtailing freedom controll...

Queerness is now global. Many emerging economies of the global South are experiencing queer mobilization and sexual identity politics raising fundamental questions of citizenship and human rights on the one hand; and discourses of nationalism, cultural identity, imperialism, tradition and family-values on the other. While some researchers argue that with economic globalization in the developing...