Slovakia since 1989

Harris, Erika ORCID: 0000-0001-9284-0215 (2010) Slovakia since 1989. In: Central and Southeast European Politics since 1989. Cambridge University Press,Cambridge, pp. 182-203. ISBN 9780521888103

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Abstract

The story of post-communist Slovakia tends to be a story of political turmoil, ethnic mobilization, and a cautiously declared success. Slovakia has been a difficult case of post-communist transition, always hovering on the verge of regression to authoritarianism; every election was “critical” to the continuation of democracy, despite the fact that Slovakia managed to enter the EU in the first wave of eastern enlargement in May 2004, after having had only two years to complete the negotiation process. Currently, Slovakia is one of the most successful examples of “Europeanization” both politically and economically and shows impressive levels of foreign investment into the country. The question that begs to be answered, though, is whether the effects of Europeanization are longer lasting than the effects of the communist and pre-communist past, which I have argued elsewhere constitute an accumulation of negative conditions for the process of democratization.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Slovakia, post-communism, democratization, Europeanization, party system
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	30 Oct 2018 09:21
Last Modified:	27 Mar 2024 12:29
DOI:	10.1017/cbo9780511803185.013
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3028149