TY - JOUR AU - Hrbkova, Lenka AU - Macek, Jakub AU - Mackova, Alena TI - How Does the Üs" versus "Them" Polarization Work? Capturing Political Antagonism with the Political Antagonism Scale JF - EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETIES J2 - EAST EUR POLIT SOC PY - 2024 PG - 21 SN - 0888-3254 DO - 10.1177/08883254231215513 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34668002 ID - 34668002 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Toró, Tibor AU - Székely, István Gergő AU - Kiss, Tamás AU - Geambașu, Réka TI - Inherent Attitudes or Misplaced Policies? Explaining COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Romania JF - EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETIES J2 - EAST EUR POLIT SOC PY - 2024 SN - 0888-3254 DO - 10.1177/08883254231198886 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34654226 ID - 34654226 N1 - First online February 18, 2024 1. Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania 2. KRTK AB - hesitancy toward COVID-19 vaccines was not particularly high in Romania at the beginning of the vaccination campaign. Nevertheless, the country became one of the laggards in the European Union in terms of vaccination rates. We aim to provide an empirical explanation for this phenomenon based on a representative survey conducted in November?December 2021. We test the influence of various factors on vaccine hesitancy, such as personal experiences with the disease, trust in relevant institutions, general worldviews, and the contact with certain institutions, such as the Romanian Orthodox Church, and general practitioners. Furthermore, we find that three COVID-specific cognitive factors played a crucial role in this respect, namely the evaluation of anti-COVID state measures, belief in COVID-related conspiracy theories, and, especially, fears of negative effects of COVID-19 vaccines. The high explanatory power of these three factors also shows that low vaccination rates were not inevitable consequences of some ?inherent? attitudinal characteristics widespread in the Romanian society; on the contrary, vaccine hesitancy has developed as an unfortunate side effect of weak crisis management, as the government and relevant state institutions failed to properly utilize key organizational resources, such as the national network of general practitioners, and proved to be unable to dissipate fears and countervail the spread of conspiracy theories, while emergency measures did not resonate enough among the Romanian public. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Szalma, Ivett AU - Júlia Szczuka, Borbála TI - Reproductive Choices and Climate Change in a Pronatalist Context JF - EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETIES J2 - EAST EUR POLIT SOC VL - 1 PY - 2024 IS - 1 SP - 1 SN - 0888-3254 DO - 10.1177/08883254241229728 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34763819 ID - 34763819 AB - This study contributes to a better understanding of how individuals make decisions about childbearing according to their views on climate change and how they rationalize their reproductive choices in a pronatalist country, Hungary. Using forty-four semi-structured interviews conducted between September 2020 and March 2022 in Hungary, we found that women are more concerned with the future of their children than the carbon footprint of their (potential) children. Most interviewees consider having children to be an important part of a woman’s life, and some even regard it as a duty not only to maintain the population size but also because they believe future generations will be more environmentally aware and provide solutions for the climate crisis. In addition, there are condemnatory attitudes towards those who do not want children because of the consequences of climate change. We also found a pattern of planning to have fewer children or planning alternative routes to parenthood (adoption) due to climate change–related concerns. While climate change was acknowledged as a relevant issue, overpopulation was considered less concerning, and there is a prevailing belief that efforts to decrease fertility rates should primarily target developing countries. Generally, interviewees support the Hungarian government’s pronatalist family policy; nevertheless, some feel that the state degrades women by treating them only according to their roles as mothers. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Schimpfoessl, Elisabeth TI - Rich Russians' Morality of Success JF - EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETIES J2 - EAST EUR POLIT SOC PY - 2023 PG - 20 SN - 0888-3254 DO - 10.1177/08883254221139826 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34631385 ID - 34631385 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Wawrzyniak, Joanna AU - Sikorska, Malgorzata TI - Narrative(s) of Return and the Gendered Memory Politics of Post-1989 Transformation: Populist Familism, Catholic Fundamentalism, and Liberal Feminism in Poland JF - EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETIES J2 - EAST EUR POLIT SOC PY - 2023 PG - 23 SN - 0888-3254 DO - 10.1177/08883254231198879 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34627283 ID - 34627283 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Baluta, Ionela AU - Tufis, Claudiu TI - Preaching the "Traditional Family" in the Romanian Parliament: The Political Stakes and Meanings of a Hegemonic Narrative JF - EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETIES J2 - EAST EUR POLIT SOC PY - 2023 PG - 23 SN - 0888-3254 DO - 10.1177/08883254231181069 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34627282 ID - 34627282 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Zaharijevic, Adriana AU - Wawrzyniak, Joanna AU - Dohotariu, Anca TI - Who Cares for Families? Narrative(s) of Return in Postsocialist Europe JF - EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETIES J2 - EAST EUR POLIT SOC PY - 2023 PG - 18 SN - 0888-3254 DO - 10.1177/08883254231198881 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34624484 ID - 34624484 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Makovicky, Nicolette AU - Wiegratz, Jörg AU - Kofti, Dimitra TI - The Moral Matrix of Capitalism: Insights from Central and Eastern Europe JF - EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETIES J2 - EAST EUR POLIT SOC VL - - PY - 2023 SP - 1 SN - 0888-3254 DO - 10.1177/08883254231196255 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34444033 ID - 34444033 AB - This special section aims to shed light on moral milieus and agencies in contemporary capitalist Central and Eastern Europe. Drawing on case studies from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Romania, and Russia, it offers insight into changing perceptions of proper economy and practice amongst a broad range of actors—from landfill workers to business managers and the super-rich. The contributors explore how actors at various scales morally construct, contest, and defend ideas of justice, (re-)distribution, and social worth, as well as socio-economic hierarchy, inequality, and harm. They analyse the capitalist moral transformation and order in the region and examine the local appropriation of and buy-in to (as well as critique of) aspects of neoliberal moral orders—a topic sidelined in much of the existing moral economy scholarship. Exploring a broad range of moral economic phenomena, the contributors move beyond the conventional definition of morals as prosocial norms and action, approaching morals as a broader empirical phenomenon of economy and politics. They examine the actions, practices, and reasoning of different actors in relation to shifting notions of acceptable and unacceptable, just and unjust, and praiseworthy and blameworthy behaviour. As such, this collection makes the case for widening the empirical object and analytical purchase of moral economy to include the study of not only moral critiques and resistance to capitalism but also the diverse moral agencies, milieus and orders of capitalism, and the ways in which the advancement and embedding of the capitalist moral order has shaped economic life in the region. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Pulay, Gergely TI - Personalized Value Struggles amid Marketization: The Search for the Good among Men on the Margins of Bucharest JF - EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETIES J2 - EAST EUR POLIT SOC VL - - PY - 2023 SP - 1 SN - 0888-3254 DO - 10.1177/08883254231166153 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34444016 ID - 34444016 AB - In the most notorious, mixed Roma and non-Roma Romanian neighbourhood of Bucharest, structurally accumulated problems of governance turn into practical challenges that need to be tackled with the means at each person’s disposal. Under conditions of capitalist incorporation and prolonged crises on the post-socialist periphery, the main protagonists of this account—male members of an extended network of Spoitori Roma with diverse livelihoods—strive for relative independence not only from market forces but also from actors who may expose them to abuse. In this article, I reflect on personalized value struggles associated with marketization. Instead of accepting the sectorial divisions between formality and informality, I show how marketization elucidates moral evaluations of being and doing good among men who hope to be or become “their own bosses” in precarious urban conditions. Distinguishing folk and analytic concepts, my analysis engages with the moral contestation of the “good” and the ambiguity of value-based human endeavours among different layers of contemporary economic life. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - BĂDESCU, G.. AU - ANGI, D. AU - Benedek, József AU - CONSTANTINESCU, S. TI - Historical Legacies and Their Impact on Human Capital: Comparing Regions within Romania JF - EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETIES J2 - EAST EUR POLIT SOC VL - 2023 PY - 2023 SN - 0888-3254 DO - 10.1177/08883254231219015. UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34436583 ID - 34436583 LA - English DB - MTMT ER -