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The Interdependence of Socio‑economic Factors and Media Literacy: Focus on Critical Media Content Analysis and Evaluation
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Volume 20, Issue 4
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Media literacy is of fundamental importance for democracy, as it enables individuals to better navigate the complexity of digital media, critically evaluate media content and assess the trustworthiness of media representations. By promoting media literacy, societies can counter disinformation,...
Media in Power: Media Actors in Ukranian Legislative Body and Zelensky’s Phenomenon
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Volume 20, Issue 4
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The role of the media and its representatives has grown significantly due to mediatisation, which is especially evident in periods of weakening political institutions. In Ukraine, the Orange Revolution (2004) and the Revolution of Dignity (2013) opened the way to politics for an increasing...
Ripple/XRP in the Great Reset Conspiracy Theory: Comparative Analysis of Social Media in Poland and Slovenia
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Volume 20, Issue 4
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Conspiracy theories are attempts to explain important events, situations or their consequences as being guided by hidden powers, usually hostile towards ordinary people, originating from a secret agreement rather than emerging by coincidence. A particular increase in the popularity...
How Active and Passive Social Media Engagement on Facebook and Instagram Shapes Democratic Attitudes Among Users in Slovakia
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Volume 20, Issue 4
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Social media play an important role in the dissemination of political information and in political dialogue among agents, agencies and citizens. We study the effects of social media on democratic attitudes. Our analysis proceeds in two phases. First, we examine the effect of using eight social...
Only Another Adjective, or Finally a New Functional Post‑Ideological Subtype? A Conceptual Analysis of Valence Populism
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Volume 20, Issue 4
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This paper explores the impact of the increasing focus on subtypes of populism on contemporary discussions within the field of political science. In an effort to provide more precise descriptions of emerging political tendencies, scholars have responded by introducing new and other types of...
Return to Power: The Illiberal Playbook from Hungary, Poland and the United States
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Volume 20, Issue 4
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This article examines how illiberal leaders’ behaviour towards the judiciary changes when they have a second chance in power. Drawing on Varieties of Democracy indicators for populist rhetoric and constitutional change, we identify several OECD worst performers and focus on two –...
Who or What Caused the Rise of Populism?
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Volume 20, Issue 4
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The article deals with who or what led to strengthening populist politics and its agents. This is a mutual combination of structural, cultural, political, media, etc. factors whereby one must recognise specifics in each country. However, the author pays special attention to the role of...
Role of Central Executive Authorities in the Formation and Implementation of the State National Memory Policy in Ukraine
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Volume 20, Issue 3
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In Ukraine there is a powerful public demand for national memory policy because, in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian war, the awareness of the Ukrainian civil identity has intensified. Therefore, revising the system of public administration in the field of national memory is relevant, given...
Contested Statehood and EU Integration: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Volume 20, Issue 3
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This article delves into the intricate relationship between contested statehood and European Union (EU) integration, explicitly focusing on Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Since the early 1990s, amidst the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the EU’s enlargement efforts, BiH has grappled with challenges...
Silent Struggles: Exploring Apathy and Civic Passivity among Czech Citizens in Debt Enforcement
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Volume 20, Issue 3
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This research paper presents a novel contribution to the field by addressing an important and previously neglected issue: the impact of debt enforcement actions on the political views of Czech citizens. The study employs a qualitative research design and draws on data collected through interviews...
Waiting for a Tragedy? Exploring the Czech Republic's Ability to Detect Radicalised Individuals
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Volume 20, Issue 3
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Radicalisation had long been seen as something foreign, belonging more to Western Europe than to post-communist Central Europe. Considering the recent events in the Czech Republic and the 2022 Bratislava shooting, the article investigates the Concept of the Fight against Extremism and Prejudicial...
Politicisation of the European Union in Slovenia in the Twenty Years of its Membership
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Volume 20, Issue 3
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Ever since Slovenia became independent, the European idea has been viewed fondly by the political elite and the public. The absence of any successful Eurosceptic parties has meant the main goals concerning European integration became national projects. Euroscepticism has remained limited, although...
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
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Volume 20, Issue 2
Marshall, T. (2023): The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World. London: Elliott and Thompson Limited.
National Pride or Economic Utility? Attitudes towards Science in the Light of Political Polarisation
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Volume 20, Issue 2
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The paper deals with the political aspects of the perception of science. The relevance of the topic is underpinned, among other things, by the public policy significance of trust in science and the links between national science and national identity. The literature relates the perception of...
The role of institutional and political factors in attracting Chinese and Russian multinationals to the Visegrad countries
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Volume 20, Issue 2
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International business research is usually focused on various aspects of foreign direct investment (FDI) by non‑European emerging‑market multinational enterprises (EMNEs) without attention to non‑traditional factors pulling them into host countries. The objective of this paper is to examine...
Patriotism among Slovenian Youth: Empirical Research
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Volume 20, Issue 2
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Research in Slovenia shows a low level of expression of patriotism amongyoung people, which points to the fact that we are unable to express this value because we are not convinced of its quality and necessity. The belief that we will love and respectour homeland, which has also been a state...
The rise of nativism in populist political communication: A case study of the Facebook communication strategy of Freedom and Direct Democracy during the 2021 Czech parliamentary elections
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Volume 20, Issue 2
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The 2021 elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic brought a shift in populist political communication. While previous research has shown that the emphasis is on accentuating the theme of migration, the 2020 Senate elections have indicated that attention is...
Old Empires, Modern State: Legacies of Partitions on Voting Behaviour in the 2023 Polish Parliamentary Elections
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Volume 20, Issue 2
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The legacies of former partitions are still visible in today’s Poland in the economy, society and politics. Our article integrates the historical and geographical perspective into the study of electoral behaviour in Poland. We conduct a geographical description of electoral results in the 2023...
US-Visegrad Realities in Biden’s World of Democracies
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Volume 20, Issue 1
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The ‘liberal world order’ can be considered as an historic exception in the history of ‘realist anarchy’ of international relations. This exception is the result of many factors and it has been significantly influenced by the power of the United States. Thus, the agenda of the world order can...
Poland’s Governmental Response to the European Green Deal: Discursive Strategies prior to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine in February 2022
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Volume 20, Issue 1
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Although Poland’s energy mix is becoming ‘greener’ each year, the country’s energy production is still dominated by coal. This affects several important spheres: financial, socioeconomic and political. Therefore, the aim of the article is to explain Poland’s response to adaptational pressure...
The Emerging New World System and the European Challenge
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Volume 20, Issue 1
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In the early 2020s we live in the transition period between two world systems, the Old World Order (OWO) and the New World Order (NWO), in a deep ‘polycrisis’.Therefore, the term transformation has recently appeared in official EU documents as well as in political science literature. The transition...
Not in my House: EU-citizenship among East-Central European Citizens: Comparative Analyses
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Volume 20, Issue 1
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The successes of right‑wing populist parties in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as a repeated distancing from the European Union, raise the question of whether there is such a thing as European citizenship at all. Citizenship is not understood as formal nationality, but as a sense of belonging....
‘The Iron Curtain did not dissolve very well’: Reflections on EU Citizenship from CEE peripheralised perspectives
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Volume 20, Issue 1
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Peripheralisation is determined in socio‑demographic, economic, political and identitarian factors. It is, many say, by definition, characterised by a willingness to migrate, in particular among the younger generations. European citizenship comes with the right to migrate – to relocate, to...
Contextual Sources of Euroscepticism in Eastern Central and Western Europe: The Role of Peripheral Regions
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Volume 20, Issue 1
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This paper examines how regional contextual factors influence Eurosceptic voting in Eastern Central and Western Europe. It employs a theoretical framework of multidimensional regional periphery and relative deprivation to explore how economic, spatial and demographic factors can generate collective...
The Regional Economic Foundations of European Identity
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Volume 20, Issue 1
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The question of whether there is increasing social integration among EU citizens in Europe as a spill‑over effect of the ongoing process of system integration, as expected by utilitarian perspectives on integration, has been discussed in many contributions so far. In particular, the question...