Tim Haughton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1207465 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Haughton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Haughton |
| SIGNATURE | HAUGHTON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8285-6950 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 532 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
A Narrow Path to Victory
Politicians whose political careers appear finished rarely make successful comebacks. Slovakia’s Robert Fico was propelled back to power when his party, Smer-SD, won the 2023 parliamentary elections and was able to form a coalition government. An election victory for Fico, however, seemed unthinkable in 2018 when he resigned as prime minister amid large-scale protests, and even more unlikely in 2020 when his party lost power, suffered a subsequen…
Clicks and Mortar
Research focused on digital tools and the Global South has enhanced our understanding of electoral campaigning. Although big data and social media seem to be game-changers in contemporary politics, studies of data-driven campaigns highlight that the reality does not always match the potential. Moreover, research into campaigns in Africa, East Asia and Latin America has enriched our knowledge, underlining that digital campaign tools are at their m…
Jumping on the New Party Bandwagon
New political parties can sometimes achieve remarkable election results. The 2022 parliamentary elections in Slovenia highlight that while anti-corruption, competence and newness appeals contributed to Freedom Movement’s ability to win over a third of the vote, its victory owed much to tactical voting. Data from a specially commissioned survey conducted immediately after the election highlights that voters jumped on to the new party bandwagon as …
Going in Different Directions? The 2023 Elections in Poland and Slovakia and Their Aftermath
The Institutions of Politics; Design, Workings, and implications ( do not use, ended 1-1-2020
There are such people
Voters often express a dislike for corruption, yet on election day, they still vote for corrupt politicians. While existing research highlights the impact of information and concern about corruption on voter behavior, our novel theoretical approach integrates three elements–dislike, knowledge, and care–to better understand corruption's role in parliamentary elections. We test this framework on Bulgaria, a nation grappling with pervasive corruptio…
Leading the Way, but Also Following the Trend
Despite spells outside parliament, with its blend of nationalist and populist appeals the Slovak National Party (SNS) has been a prominent fixture on Slovakia’s political scene for three decades. Unlike some of the newer parties in Slovakia and across the region, partly as a product of the point of its (re-)creation, SNS has a comparable organizational density to most established parties in the country and has invested in party branches and recru…
Ruling Divisions
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Corruption, Campaigning, and Novelty
Party politics across Central and Eastern Europe has become less structured. Many of the divides that anchored political competition have waned in recent years, weakening the attachment of voters to the existing palette of parties and making them more likely to be attracted to new and non-traditional electoral vehicles. But for such parties to succeed at the ballot box, they need to be able to frame elections and campaign effectively. Drawing on …
Winning votes and influencing people
Using comparative data, we find that direct contact with voters is lower in CEE than elsewhere, although there are stark differences between CEE countries. Leafleting was the main form of contact, but the use of social media was higher in CEE than in Western Europe. Perennial parties are the most likely to contact citizens using personalised modes while the "accepted truth" that new entrants are more likely to use social media does not hold up. O…
The New Party Challenge
Why are there so many new parties? Why do so few of them survive? And why are they appearing and disappearing in so many more countries these days? Based on hundreds of interviews with party leaders, activists and voters and three decades of election results across Europe, The New Party Challenge introduces new tools for mapping and measuring party systems and develops an integrated conceptual framework for analysing the dynamics of party politic…
The New Party Challenge
Surviving the Storm
This article is part of the special cluster titled Parties and Democratic Linkage in Post-Communist Europe, guest edited by Lori Thorlakson, and will be published in the August 2018 issue of EEPS Political parties in Central and Eastern Europe come and go quite rapidly, giving the region a reputation for electoral chaos, but amid the change, some parties survive for many electoral cycles. A brief examination of the party systems in the region sho…
The volatility of volatility
Is Crisis the New Normal? The European Union in 2015
Twenty years after communism
Twenty years after communism: the politics of memory and commemoration." East European Politics, 32(4), pp. 567–568
Hurricane Season
The seemingly random triumph and demise of new political parties in Central and Eastern Europe actually represent a durable subsystem with relevance for party systems around the world. This article supplements existing research on volatility with new measures of party age distribution that reveal clear patterns of disruption, turnover and restabilization. These patterns emerge from stable and coherent party subsystems that follow a simple model b…
Money, Margins and the Motors of Politics
In line with expectations EU membership has only a limited impact on party politics in the new M ember S tates of central and eastern Europe ( CEE ); even the economic crisis has not altered this level of impact. An examination of party positioning, party appeals and party competition indicates the EU plays the role of a boundary keeper, a reference point and a weapon to be invoked in domestic competition, particularly to lambast opponents for th…
When permissiveness constrains
Party laws and regulation in the Czech Republic are largely permissive and have served the interests of the established parties, helping to underpin the largely oligopolistic nature of Czech party politics. Whereas non-financial regulation remained virtually unchanged in the first two post-communist decades, party financing laws have been amended, often in response to scandal. Although the existing system of regulation has helped entrench the pos…
Farewell Britannia? ‘Issue Capture’ and the Politics of David Cameron's 2013 EU Referendum Pledge
Exit, choice and legacy
In the first two post-communist decades, party politics in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) displayed a remarkable degree of variation. Some party systems were stable, others were unstable, and others such as Slovakia showed stability in their instability. Although many of the widely used frameworks for explaining the development of party politics in CEE including legacy-based approaches, those stressing the exit from communism, institutional fra…
The 2011 parliamentary elections in Slovenia
Battlefields, ammunition and uniforms
The Impact of Expansion on European Union Institutions
The 2010 parliamentary elections in Slovakia
Half Full but also Half Empty
Although the European Union was an ingredient in the processes of democratisation and marketisation in Central and Eastern Europe in the two decades following the 1989 revolutions, recent scholarly contributions to the debate on EU conditionality and post-accession conditionality raise doubts about the transformative power of the European Union and the explanatory power of the rational incentives model. Nonetheless, the very process of joining th…
When does the EU Make a Difference? Conditionality and the Accession Process in Central and Eastern Europe
A number of recent studies examining the accession of states from Central and Eastern Europe into the European Union have provided a much more sophisticated understanding of when, why and how the EU shaped, directed and occasionally determined change in the region since 1989. Although acknowledging the EU was at times a motor of change, its power was limited to particular points in the accession process and varied significantly across policy area…
Hurricane Season
The seemingly random triumph and demise of new political parties in Central and Eastern Europe actually represent a durable subsystem with relevance for party systems around the world. This article supplements existing research on volatility with new measures of party age distribution that reveal clear patterns of disruption, turnover and restabilization. These patterns emerge from stable and coherent party subsystems that follow a simple model b…
Toward a More Useful Conceptualization of Populism
Shifting our understanding of populism from a question of core identity to a description of party appeals allows for a neutralization of the term's negative connotations by allowing that all parties may use populist appeals to some extent. It is then possible to address a party's use of populist appeals by measuring its distinctly nonpopulist appeals, which are usually less bound up with normative judgments. Although the preliminary analysis of S…
The volatility of volatility
Slovakia's Neoliberal Turn
Slovakia distinguished itself in the first half of this decade by launching a coherent set of economic reforms that limited government and transferred social and economic risk to individuals. We examine reforms in fiscal policy, pensions, the labour code, health care, investment, education and justice. While the surprise formation of a centre – right governing coalition in 2002 enabled Slovakia's ‘neoliberal’ turn, a close network of neoliberal p…
The 2010 Czech and Slovak Parliamentary Elections
Sticking Together
In this article, we attempt to explain varying patterns of centre—right success between 1990 and 2006 in three post-communist states — Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. Success is understood as the ability to construct broad and durable parties. Both macro-institutional explanations, focusing on executive structures and electoral systems, and historical—structural explanations, stressing communist regime legacies, have limited power to expl…
Farewell Britannia? ‘Issue Capture’ and the Politics of David Cameron's 2013 EU Referendum Pledge
HZDS
IN ELECTORAL TERMS the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) has been Slovakia's most successful party since its formation in 1991. The clear winner of the June 1992 elections in the Slovak part of Czechoslovakia with 37.26% of the vote, HZDS's founder and leader and three time Slovak Prime Minister, Vladimir Meciar, led the final phase of negotiations with his Czech counterpart, Vaclav Klaus, that spelt the demise of the common state. Althou…
The Choices for Europe
Drawing on the existing body of literature that deals with national preference formation and building on the role played by vulnerability and deficits in shaping policy choices at the European level, this article provides a synthetic framework to explain the stances of the Older Member States (OMS) and New Member States (NMS). We subsequently apply the model to NMS, focusing largely, although not exclusively, on Poland. We argue that although man…
A Change of Direction
A detailed examination of the 2006 parliamentary elections in Slovakia highlights the evolving pattern of party competition in the country. A transformation of the party political scene in the country has taken place, from one dominated by questions of the character of the political regime, illiberal democracy and nationalism into one in which socio-economic themes are of key importance for political parties to mobilize voters and win elections. …
From the Politics of State-Building To Programmatic Politics
The post-federal experience was important in shaping the structure of party competition in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s, particularly on the centre—right. The cases of Slovakia and Croatia demonstrate not only how and why appeals relating to national autonomy/statehood became salient in some states in the region, but also why dominant parties stressing such themes were unable to lock in their support. Strategic crafting, particularly i…
Making Institutions in Central and Eastern Europe, and the Impact of Europe
The end of communism in Central and Eastern Europe offered the region a unique opportunity for institutional redesign. Thanks to the variety of historical experiences, inherited structures, transition paths and deal sweeteners during the round-table talks, post-communist Europe initially witnessed much institutional diversity. Throughout the course of the past decade, however, there has been a notable convergence of institutional designs across t…
Money, Margins and the Motors of Politics
In line with expectations EU membership has only a limited impact on party politics in the new M ember S tates of central and eastern Europe ( CEE ); even the economic crisis has not altered this level of impact. An examination of party positioning, party appeals and party competition indicates the EU plays the role of a boundary keeper, a reference point and a weapon to be invoked in domestic competition, particularly to lambast opponents for th…
Corruption, Campaigning, and Novelty
Party politics across Central and Eastern Europe has become less structured. Many of the divides that anchored political competition have waned in recent years, weakening the attachment of voters to the existing palette of parties and making them more likely to be attracted to new and non-traditional electoral vehicles. But for such parties to succeed at the ballot box, they need to be able to frame elections and campaign effectively. Drawing on …
Explaining the Limited Success of the Communist-Successor Left in Slovakia
Most of the literature on communist-successor parties has focused on their successful return to power in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s. This article aims to contribute to the wealth of knowledge on communist-successor parties by focusing on the limited success of the Party of the Democratic Left (SDL’) in Slovakia. Although the role of the party during the revolution and its immediate aftermath (1989–90) is shown to be important in shap…
Surviving the Storm
This article is part of the special cluster titled Parties and Democratic Linkage in Post-Communist Europe, guest edited by Lori Thorlakson, and will be published in the August 2018 issue of EEPS Political parties in Central and Eastern Europe come and go quite rapidly, giving the region a reputation for electoral chaos, but amid the change, some parties survive for many electoral cycles. A brief examination of the party systems in the region sho…
The 2011 parliamentary elections in Slovenia
The 2010 parliamentary elections in Slovakia
For Business, for Pleasure or for Necessity? The Czech Republic's Choices for Europe
Drawing on scholarly accounts from the study of Western Europe which seek to explain national preference formation in European Union member states, this article explores the factors which shape the Czech Republic's policy preferences at the EU level. It argues that whilst ideology, dependency and powerful economic interest groups have explanatory power, the key to explaining national preference formation in the Czech case lies in vulnerabilities …
Half Full but also Half Empty
Although the European Union was an ingredient in the processes of democratisation and marketisation in Central and Eastern Europe in the two decades following the 1989 revolutions, recent scholarly contributions to the debate on EU conditionality and post-accession conditionality raise doubts about the transformative power of the European Union and the explanatory power of the rational incentives model. Nonetheless, the very process of joining th…
All right now? Explaining the successes and failures of the Slovak centre-right
The forces of the centre-right in Slovakia were the clear winners of the September 2002 parliamentary elections. Within days of the polling stations closing, a four-party centre-right coalition con
Exit, choice and legacy
In the first two post-communist decades, party politics in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) displayed a remarkable degree of variation. Some party systems were stable, others were unstable, and others such as Slovakia showed stability in their instability. Although many of the widely used frameworks for explaining the development of party politics in CEE including legacy-based approaches, those stressing the exit from communism, institutional fra…
A Tool in the Toolbox
Although EU accession created some expectations of change, an examination of party politics in Slovakia demonstrates the limited impact of EU membership on party organization and programmes during the first four years of membership. Moreover, distinguishing between ad hoc and coordinated change suggests that only weak Europeanization occurred. Nonetheless, the EU played three roles in the post-accession period: as a source of agreement, a referen…
Emerging Patterns of EU Membership
The 2004 enlargement of the European Union has provided political scientists with 10 additional cases to examine national preference formation and behaviour in the EU. The first two years of Slovakia's membership suggest that while unique historical experiences and size contribute to explaining Slovakia's stance on further integration, ideology, powerful societal interests and the opportunities of membership (as opposed to accession) hold the key…
HZDS
IN ELECTORAL TERMS the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) has been Slovakia's most successful party since its formation in 1991. The clear winner of the June 1992 elections in the Slovak part of Czechoslovakia with 37.26% of the vote, HZDS's founder and leader and three time Slovak Prime Minister, Vladimir Meciar, led the final phase of negotiations with his Czech counterpart, Vaclav Klaus, that spelt the demise of the common state. Althou…
(Vladimír Me ) iar and his Role in the 1994-1998 Slovak Coalition Government
Making Institutions in Central and Eastern Europe, and the Impact of Europe
The end of communism in Central and Eastern Europe offered the region a unique opportunity for institutional redesign. Thanks to the variety of historical experiences, inherited structures, transition paths and deal sweeteners during the round-table talks, post-communist Europe initially witnessed much institutional diversity. Throughout the course of the past decade, however, there has been a notable convergence of institutional designs across t…
We'll finish what we've started’
The 2002 parliamentary election in Slovakia produced a surprisingly clear result, with a centre-right government, acceptable to both the EU and NATO, formed days after the polling-stations closed. An explanation for the election results is found by looking through the lens of party politics in Slovakia. Although the successes of the 1998–2002 coalition government in the foreign sphere helped to bolster support for Prime Minister Dzurinda's party …
All right now? Explaining the successes and failures of the Slovak centre-right
The forces of the centre-right in Slovakia were the clear winners of the September 2002 parliamentary elections. Within days of the polling stations closing, a four-party centre-right coalition con
Redrawing Nations
Czech–German Relations and the Politics of Central Europe
Explaining the Limited Success of the Communist-Successor Left in Slovakia
Most of the literature on communist-successor parties has focused on their successful return to power in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s. This article aims to contribute to the wealth of knowledge on communist-successor parties by focusing on the limited success of the Party of the Democratic Left (SDL’) in Slovakia. Although the role of the party during the revolution and its immediate aftermath (1989–90) is shown to be important in shap…
Liberal Nationalism in Central Europe
Slovenia
Slovakia's Neoliberal Turn
Slovakia distinguished itself in the first half of this decade by launching a coherent set of economic reforms that limited government and transferred social and economic risk to individuals. We examine reforms in fiscal policy, pensions, the labour code, health care, investment, education and justice. While the surprise formation of a centre – right governing coalition in 2002 enabled Slovakia's ‘neoliberal’ turn, a close network of neoliberal p…
When does the EU Make a Difference? Conditionality and the Accession Process in Central and Eastern Europe
A number of recent studies examining the accession of states from Central and Eastern Europe into the European Union have provided a much more sophisticated understanding of when, why and how the EU shaped, directed and occasionally determined change in the region since 1989. Although acknowledging the EU was at times a motor of change, its power was limited to particular points in the accession process and varied significantly across policy area…
Emerging Patterns of EU Membership
The 2004 enlargement of the European Union has provided political scientists with 10 additional cases to examine national preference formation and behaviour in the EU. The first two years of Slovakia's membership suggest that while unique historical experiences and size contribute to explaining Slovakia's stance on further integration, ideology, powerful societal interests and the opportunities of membership (as opposed to accession) hold the key…
Parties, Patronage and the Post-Communist State
A Change of Direction
A detailed examination of the 2006 parliamentary elections in Slovakia highlights the evolving pattern of party competition in the country. A transformation of the party political scene in the country has taken place, from one dominated by questions of the character of the political regime, illiberal democracy and nationalism into one in which socio-economic themes are of key importance for political parties to mobilize voters and win elections. …
From the Politics of State-Building To Programmatic Politics
The post-federal experience was important in shaping the structure of party competition in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s, particularly on the centre—right. The cases of Slovakia and Croatia demonstrate not only how and why appeals relating to national autonomy/statehood became salient in some states in the region, but also why dominant parties stressing such themes were unable to lock in their support. Strategic crafting, particularly i…
Sticking Together
In this article, we attempt to explain varying patterns of centre—right success between 1990 and 2006 in three post-communist states — Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. Success is understood as the ability to construct broad and durable parties. Both macro-institutional explanations, focusing on executive structures and electoral systems, and historical—structural explanations, stressing communist regime legacies, have limited power to expl…
Toward a More Useful Conceptualization of Populism
Shifting our understanding of populism from a question of core identity to a description of party appeals allows for a neutralization of the term's negative connotations by allowing that all parties may use populist appeals to some extent. It is then possible to address a party's use of populist appeals by measuring its distinctly nonpopulist appeals, which are usually less bound up with normative judgments. Although the preliminary analysis of S…
A Tool in the Toolbox
Although EU accession created some expectations of change, an examination of party politics in Slovakia demonstrates the limited impact of EU membership on party organization and programmes during the first four years of membership. Moreover, distinguishing between ad hoc and coordinated change suggests that only weak Europeanization occurred. Nonetheless, the EU played three roles in the post-accession period: as a source of agreement, a referen…
Driver, Conductor or Fellow Passenger? EU Membership and Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
Although accession to the European Union created some expectations of change, an examination of party politics in the new member states of Central and Eastern Europe between 2004 and 2008 indicates that EU membership had only a limited impact on party organization and programmes across the region. Nonetheless, in the realm of party politics the EU acted as a constraint, a source of spill-over and a point of reference
For Business, for Pleasure or for Necessity? The Czech Republic's Choices for Europe
Drawing on scholarly accounts from the study of Western Europe which seek to explain national preference formation in European Union member states, this article explores the factors which shape the Czech Republic's policy preferences at the EU level. It argues that whilst ideology, dependency and powerful economic interest groups have explanatory power, the key to explaining national preference formation in the Czech case lies in vulnerabilities …
The Gathering Storm
The Choices for Europe
Drawing on the existing body of literature that deals with national preference formation and building on the role played by vulnerability and deficits in shaping policy choices at the European level, this article provides a synthetic framework to explain the stances of the Older Member States (OMS) and New Member States (NMS). We subsequently apply the model to NMS, focusing largely, although not exclusively, on Poland. We argue that although man…
Half Full but also Half Empty
Although the European Union was an ingredient in the processes of democratisation and marketisation in Central and Eastern Europe in the two decades following the 1989 revolutions, recent scholarly contributions to the debate on EU conditionality and post-accession conditionality raise doubts about the transformative power of the European Union and the explanatory power of the rational incentives model. Nonetheless, the very process of joining th…
The 2010 Czech and Slovak Parliamentary Elections
Political science (49 works) · Law (41 works) · Law (40 works) · Politics (38 works) · Sociology (27 works) · Political economy (26 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (22 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (19 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (17 works) · Computer Science (15 works)