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Book Synopsis“We have to abandon liberal methods and principles of organizing a society. The new state that we are building is an illiberal state, a non-liberal state”, Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban famously said in 2014, exemplifying a broader trend taking place in Central Europe. Why would the countries that were praised as democratization and Europeanization success stories take an illiberal turn? This volume explores changing values and attitudes to explain events that took place in the aftermath of the financial and migration crisis in six Central European countries: Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: How Values and Attitudes Influence Illiberal Tendencies in Central Europe Sanja Hajdinjak, Beatrice-Elena Chromková Manea, and Roman Chytilek 1 Political (Dis)Trust in Central Europe: Mechanisms and Regional Variety Sanja Hajdinjak, Gorana Mišić, and Tamara Kolarić 2 The Voters of Populist Radical Right Parties in cee: How Radical Are They? Roman Chytilek and Vlastimil Havlík 3 Are There Generational Differences in the Support for Democracy in Central European Countries? Lukáš Linek and Aleš Vomáčka 4 Explaining Attitudes towards Immigrants and Immigration through the Lenses of National Identity and Political Culture Beatrice Chromková Manea and Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky 5 Authoritarianism and Attitudes toward the Environment in Croatia: A Central European Perspective Krunoslav Nikodem and Tijana Trako Poljak 6 The Perception of Migrants in the Labor Market: The Czech Experience Martin Hrabálek Index
