Future of Democracy Assistance

In late October 2013, the British press decried “benefit tourism”. Allegedly, the numbers of migrants from EU countries that receive social benefits in the UK influence the British economy. Therefore, already in 2004, London introduced a “right to reside” test that restricts benefits to economically active individuals. Firstly, isn’t that a paradox? And secondly, is that the welfare state serving its purpose?

DOWNLOAD

EUROPE

How will we take care of our elders and ourselves when welfare state fails? 

• Survey: Zoltán Cséfalvay, Agnieszka Jucewicz-Kwaśniewska, Jakub Klepal, Ivan Mikloš
• After the Welfare State. An Attempt to Map Uncharted Territory      Martin Ehl
• Rivers of Empathy: Floods, Policy, and Politics      Matteo Tacconi
• Solidarity of Citizens and of States in the European Union      Magdalena Góra
• Post-communist Deficits of Trust      Szabolcs Pogonyi
• The Elusive Discourse of Union     Viera Knutelská

THINK THANK WATCH

• Disappearing Peoples. Fertility Crisis in the Visegrad Region      Olga Urbańska

ECONOMY AND BUSINESS

• Warsaw and Berlin from a French Perspective. From Economic Integration to Political Rapprochement      Philippe Rusin
• Foreign Pensioners System. Interview with Artur Frank by Pavla Francová
• Central Europe’s Road to High-tech      Tomasz Kasprowicz

INTERVIEW

• Adam Michnik talks the Ukrainian question. Interview by Wojciech Przybylski

INTELLIGENT MIND

• Lecture on Solidarity      Michael Sandel
• Interview with Karel Schwarzenberg by Alžběta Chmelařová
• Grand Illusion. Closure and New Beginnings      Gábor Németh

COMMUNITIES

• Socio ’50 . Reflections on the (Re)institutionalization of Sociology      Attila Pató
• Teach Your Government To Be Honest      Spasimir Domaradzki

VISEGRAD ABROAD

• The Abracadabra of Democracy Promotion      Maciej Kuziemski
• Future of Democracy Assistance. A debate between key actors. Survey: Ibolya Bárány, Igor Blaževič, Tomicah Tilleman, Marcin Wojciechowski, Karla Wursterová
• V4 Transition Experience – An Added Value for EU Democracy Promotion?      Simon Lightfoot and Balázs Szent-Iványi
• Quo vadis, Visegrad      Jiří Čistecký
• Leadership of the EU? Not yet      Roderick Parkes
• The Realpolitik of Visegrad Solidarity     Mateusz Gniazdowski

BOOKS

• Books as Battlefields. Politically Committed Literature in Central Europe     Marek Sečkař
• My Sweet Homeland. Contemporary Political Poetry in Hungary      Tibor Bárány
• Why is Viewegh’s “Klaus“ Gay?      Martin Puskely
• Who Wants to be Committed to the Cause Here?    Lucie Zakopalová
• Book reviews by Pavel Mandys, Jan Němec, Justyna Czechowska, Cezary Polak, András Bozóki, Miklós Vörös, Marek Lollok, Ivana Taranenková

REPORT

• Youth Looking Back in Anger      Szabina Kerényi
• Filling in the Niche. Populist Radical Right and the Concept of Solidarity      Dominika Kasprowicz

URBAN

• Homes Not Jails      Bálint Misetics
• The Power of the Powerless – Revisited       Marcin Dyrcz and Danuta Glondys

ARTS / LOOKING BACK

• The Four Musketeers Stand Alone. Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia in the European film market      Marcin Adamczak
• A Hungarian in Warsaw. Interview with Szábolcs Esztényi by Michał Mendyk

OPPORTUNITIES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Just 18. Top Must Attend Conferences in CE       Anna Wójcik

ESSAY

• Today Is Already Tomorrow      Wojciech Przybylski