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X-WR-CALNAME:Democracy at Risk: The Radical Right’s Interaction with Main
 stream Parties and Its Effects in Eastern Europe
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DESCRIPTION:The lecture offers an overview of the radical right's interacti
 ons with mainstream parties and the effect they have on setting political 
 agendas in the region. The focus is on sensitive policy areas such as mino
 rity policies and asylum regulations. Based on a study of shifts in major 
 parties’ policy positions and in minority-related policies\, the lecture
  addresses the question to what extent the radical right has changed the q
 uality of democracy in Eastern Europe. This question shall be answered by 
 comparing three groups of countries that are distinct in terms of the rele
 vance of radical right parties: Bulgaria and Slovakia\; Hungary\, Poland\,
  and Romania\; and the Czech Republic and Estonia.\n\n \n\nAbout the speak
 er\n\nMichael Minkenberg is professor of Comparative Politics at the Europ
 ean University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). He studied Political Science\
 , History\, and Economics at the universities of Heidelberg\, Freiburg/Br.
 \, Bonn and Cologne and at Georgetown University where he received his M.A
 . in American Government in 1984. He obtained his Ph.D. at the university 
 of Heidelberg in 1989 and his Habilitation (venia legendi) in Political Sc
 ience at the university of Göttingen in 1997.\n\n \n\nSince 1989\, he has
  taught comparative politics at Georgetown University\, the universities o
 f Göttingen and Heidelberg\, at Cornell University and Columbia Universit
 y. From 2007-10 he held the Max Weber Chair for German and European Studie
 s at NYU. \n\n \n\nMinkenberg's research interests include the radical rig
 ht in liberal democracies\; the relationship between religion and politics
  in Western societies\; and\, more recently\, the role of state architectu
 re in capital cities. He published widely on these topics in journals such
  as the European Journal of Political Science\, Comparative Politics\, Gov
 ernment and Opposition\, West European Politics\, Comparative Political St
 udies\, East European Politics and Societies\, the International Political
  Science Review. \n\n \n\nHis most recent publications are\, with Zsuzsann
 a Végh\, Depleting democracies: Radical right impact on parties\, policie
 s\, and polities in Eastern Europe (Manchester University Press 2023)\, an
 d Religion und Politik in westlichen Demokratien (Religion and politics in
  Western democracies) (Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2024).
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LOCATION:Uris Hall\, G08
SUMMARY:Democracy at Risk: The Radical Right’s Interaction with Mainstrea
 m Parties and Its Effects in Eastern Europe
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/democracy-at-risk-the-radica
 l-rights-interaction-with-mainstream-parties-and-its-effects-in-eastern-eu
 rope
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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