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Community Invited to Learn about
Populism and the Politics of Resentment in Eastern Europe on
Feb. 18 at 2:30 p.m. as part of Reinhardt College’s “Year of
Eastern Europe and Russia”
As part of Reinhardt College’s Year of Eastern
Europe and Russia, the public is invited to hear Dr. Hubert
Tworzecki from Emory University present “Populism and the
Politics of Resentment in Eastern Europe” on Feb. 18, at 2:30
p.m., on the top level of the Hill Freeman Library and Spruill
Learning Center. This event is offered to the public free of
charge.
An associate professor of political science at
Emory, Tworzecki will address the political climate in Eastern
Europe. “Almost two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall,
is the post-communist experiment in democratization a success or
a failure?” he asked. “The news from Russia itself may be grim,
but at least the countries of East-Central Europe are generally
regarded as democratic success stories. Still, recent elections
in this region have shown a worrying pattern of successes by
radical populist parties, whose open disdain for the principles
of liberal democracy has reopened the debate about the
persistence of authoritarian temptations in this part of the
world.”
Reinhardt YEER committee chair, Dr. Anne Good,
scheduled the talk to explore another aspect of this complex
area. “We have had talks this year on history, religion and
social issues, but we have not had anyone speak directly about
recent political issues,” she said. “His work will be of great
interest to our audience.”
Tworzecki was born in Warsaw, Poland and educated
at the University of British Columbia (BA/MA 1989) and the
University of Toronto, where he received his Ph.D. in 1994. He
is the author of Parties and Politics in Post-1989 Poland
(Westview Press, 1996) and Learning to Choose: Electoral
Politics in East-Central Europe (Stanford University Press,
2002). His current research project is titled "Political
Representation and Democratic Consolidation in East-Central
Europe."
For more information on future YEER
events, please see the college website: www.reinhardt.edu/YEER/index.htm
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