Why have opposition parties failed to act as effective safeguards against the deteriorating quality of democracy in Poland and Hungary? Why has the democratization process in Ukraine (until 2022) and Georgia been stalled, despite active extra-parliamentary opposition? What forms of political dissent can be detected in Belarus since the mass protests in 2020 and subsequent wave of unprecedented repression?
This project tackles the state of political opposition, its functions, strategies and institutional setting in different political systems of Central and Eastern Europe.
The project has received a PRIMA grant for a five-year period by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
The project strives to identify different forms of opposition across political systems and explain various avenues and ways in which opposition parties respond to challenges and continue to perform their functions of critique, control and alternative.
Magdalena Solska, PhD
SNSF Assistant Professor
magdalena.solska@unifr.ch
T: +41 26 300 7980
Mélody Gugelmann, M.A.
PhD Student
melody.gugelmann@unifr.ch
T:+ 41 26 300 7792
Department of European and Slavic Studies
University of Fribourg
Rue du Criblet 13
CH-1700 Fribourg