Author: James Dawson | Journal of Democracy

James Dawson lectures at University College London, where he has served as director of the master’s program in Democracy and Comparative Politics. He is the author of Cultures of Democracy in Serbia and Bulgaria: How Ideas Shape Publics (2014).

January 2016, Volume 27, Issue 1

What’s Wrong with East-Central Europe? The Fading Mirage of the “Liberal Consensus”

James Dawson
Seán Hanley

Across East-Central Europe, the political center ground has long been characterized by the uneasy cohabitation of liberal and illiberal norms, but the latter have been gradually overpowering the former.