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Open Access: The book Handbook of Direct Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989 is an Open Access title (DOI: 10.3224/84742122) , which is free to download or can be bought as paperback. The book holds a Creative Commons License Attribution4.0 International (CC BY4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ / Der Titel Handbook of Direct Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989 (DOI: 10.3224/84742122) ist kostenlos im Open Access (PDF) herunterladbar oder kostenpflichtig als Print-Ausgabe erhältlich. Der Titel steht unter der Creative Commons Lizenz Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union the political history of Central and Eastern Europe has been mainly the story of arise, consolidation, transformation and struggles of new democratic regimes and societies. The handbook offers an instructive approach to that history focusing on the relevance of practices and institutions of direct democracy. It collects 20 political analyses of direct democracy in 20 Central and Eastern European countries after 1989.

The aim of the book is the holistic and interdisciplinary political analysis of direct democracy in the Central and Eastern European countries after 1989. The case studies make diagnoses of the state of democratic processes in the regarding countries, and present and analyze institutions of direct democracy. In addition the book provides an analytical and comparative examination of the implementation processes of direct democratic practices and solutions at national and local level. The collection of case studies shows the significance of direct democracy in the formal-legal and practical dimension of the Central and Eastern European countries and point at the use of direct democratic instruments as expression of political awareness of these societies. Thereby the studies emphasize the significant connection of the accession process to the European Union and the development of direct democracy in these countries.

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The editor:
Maria Marczewska-Rytko, Professor, head of Political Movements Department at Faculty of Political Science Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland

Target groups:
lecturers and researchers in the political sciences

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Autor*innen

Maria Marczewska-Rytko

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Keywords

comparative politics, Direct democracy, Eastern and Central Europe, IPSA 2022