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Book SynopsisDemocratic innovations in Central and Eastern Europe expands research on democratic innovations by looking specifically at different forms of democratic innovations in the Central and Eastern Europe.
Table of Contents1. Democratic innovations in Central and Eastern Europe: expanding the research agenda Sergiu Gherghina, Joakim Ekman and Olena Podolian 2. The role of partisan cues on voters’ mobilization in a referendum Miroslav Nemčok, Peter Spáč & Petr Voda 3. And yet it matters: referendum campaigns and vote decision in Eastern Europe Sergiu Gherghina and Nanuli Silagadze 4. ‘Never just a local war’: explaining the failure of a mayor’s recall referendum Sergiu Mișcoiu 5. Direct democracy in an increasingly illiberal setting: the case of the Hungarian national referendum Zoltán Tibor Pállinger 6. Deliberative democracy and trust in political institutions at the local level: evidence from participatory budgeting experiment in Ukraine Dmytro Volodin 7. Attrition in long-term deliberative processes. The neighbourhood consultative councils in Timisoara Adrian Schiffbeck 8. Democratic innovations in Serbia: a misplaced trust in technology Ivana Damnjanović