The Czech public voted out their prime minister. Actually getting rid of him may be harder. Marek Rybar and Kevin Deegan-Krause - October 12, 2021 The covid response — and a series of scandals — tipped the race against the billionaire populist
How do you persuade skeptics to get vaccinated? Trust matters more than information. Pauline Jones and Laura Rozek - June 10, 2021 That’s what we found by surveying more than 15 countries in five world regions
How history’s deadliest pandemic shaped politics in Central Europe for centuries — until now Jan P. Vogler and Daniel W. Gingerich - June 9, 2021 What lessons can we take from how the Black Death changed the world?
Europe’s communist regimes began to collapse 30 years ago, but still shape political views Grigore Pop-Eleches and Joshua Tucker - November 11, 2019 Nov. 9, 2019, marked the 30th anniversary of the fall
Europe’s democracies are in trouble. To understand why, look to the past. Henry Farrell - June 7, 2019 Building stable democracies is a slow and painful process.
When left-leaning parties support austerity, their voters start to embrace the far right Maria Snegovaya - November 20, 2018 [caption id="attachment_80438" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Left- and right-wing sympathizers hold flags
Russia used to see itself as part of Europe. Here’s why that changed. Andrew Foxall - June 18, 2018 [caption id="attachment_74544" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a
Trump wants to cut immigration and foreign aid. Here’s how they’re connected. Sarah Bermeo and David Leblang - February 22, 2018 The Trump administration continues to push for large cuts to
5 reasons that populist billionaire Andrej Babis is likely to win the Czech elections Vlastimil Havlik and Tim Haughton - October 19, 2017 [caption id="attachment_65080" align="aligncenter" width="960"] A poster depicting Andrej Babis hangs
Hungary and Slovakia challenged Europe’s refugee scheme. They just lost badly. Melissa Carlson, Laura Jakli, and Katerina Linos - September 8, 2017 On Wednesday morning, the European Court of Justice turned down