The EU did not foresee how autocratisation would unfold in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). But political scientists failed to raise the alarm, too. Lise Herman, James Dawson and Aurelia Ananda show that optimistic assumptions about democratisation misled policy makers and researchers alike
Assistant Professor in Politics, Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University
James's research on Central and Eastern Europe has focused on the ways that competing ideological projects such as liberalism and ethnic nationalism shape both elite politics and citizens’ everyday lives.
He is now working on a British Academy-funded project aimed at interpreting socio-political turbulence in Bulgaria in the context of the country’s democratisation.
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