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It is fair to call the last ten years a decade of crises: the migration crisis of 2014-2015, the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-2021 and the escalation of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine
in 2022 have sharpened the conflicts among nation states, and have significantly transformed the relations and the balance of power between political institutions and actors within the nation
states.
The migration crisis has posed a new type of challenge to European national governments and modified their cooperation in the European Union. European countries were confronted with the impact of conflicts that had arisen in other regions (notably the Arab Spring and the Syrian civil war), and responded in sharply different ways, ranging from proclaiming the 'Willkommenskultur' to building border fences. The COVID-19 pandemic triggered even more serious governmental action in terms of social distancing, vaccine procurement and immunisation coverage, as well as in the measures aimed at mitigating the economic impacts of the epidemic. Some nation states tried to handle the epidemic and manage its consequences within the normal legal framework, while others introduced special legal orders.
The most recent overall crisis was provoked by the Russian Ukrainian conflict escalating into a war, again generating different responses from nation-state governments.
Interpreting and responding to crisis is always an institutional political act. The special issue aims to explore and understand the different dynamics and patterns of the responses of political
institutions on the crises in the last decade. We invite papers which study how (national) political institutions answered to the recent unprecedented challenges, when due to uncertain and dynamically changing factors and events they had to abandoned the normal mode of political decision making and public policy responses (mainly, but not exclusively: economic policy, criminal policy, defense policy, media policy, social policy, health policy) and how these challenges impact the inter-institutional relations in the political systems.
These are truly extraordinary times, which requires democracies to think about how they recalibrate policy making and relations among political institutions. The special issue welcomes
all scholars interested in the study of politics and law with a particular focus on political institutions either applying a comparative perspective or a case study methodology.
We would like to receive papers studying institutional crisis responses in Central and Eastern Europe (in particular the Visegrad Group countries) but papers on models of solutions applied in these countries originating from other regions, or reflections on the practice of the Central and Eastern European politics from other regions, are also invited.
in 2022 have sharpened the conflicts among nation states, and have significantly transformed the relations and the balance of power between political institutions and actors within the nation
states.
The migration crisis has posed a new type of challenge to European national governments and modified their cooperation in the European Union. European countries were confronted with the impact of conflicts that had arisen in other regions (notably the Arab Spring and the Syrian civil war), and responded in sharply different ways, ranging from proclaiming the 'Willkommenskultur' to building border fences. The COVID-19 pandemic triggered even more serious governmental action in terms of social distancing, vaccine procurement and immunisation coverage, as well as in the measures aimed at mitigating the economic impacts of the epidemic. Some nation states tried to handle the epidemic and manage its consequences within the normal legal framework, while others introduced special legal orders.
The most recent overall crisis was provoked by the Russian Ukrainian conflict escalating into a war, again generating different responses from nation-state governments.
Interpreting and responding to crisis is always an institutional political act. The special issue aims to explore and understand the different dynamics and patterns of the responses of political
institutions on the crises in the last decade. We invite papers which study how (national) political institutions answered to the recent unprecedented challenges, when due to uncertain and dynamically changing factors and events they had to abandoned the normal mode of political decision making and public policy responses (mainly, but not exclusively: economic policy, criminal policy, defense policy, media policy, social policy, health policy) and how these challenges impact the inter-institutional relations in the political systems.
These are truly extraordinary times, which requires democracies to think about how they recalibrate policy making and relations among political institutions. The special issue welcomes
all scholars interested in the study of politics and law with a particular focus on political institutions either applying a comparative perspective or a case study methodology.
We would like to receive papers studying institutional crisis responses in Central and Eastern Europe (in particular the Visegrad Group countries) but papers on models of solutions applied in these countries originating from other regions, or reflections on the practice of the Central and Eastern European politics from other regions, are also invited.
Keywords: crises, political science, institutional effects, political policies, institutional changes, central and eastern europe
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