Lise Esther Herman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1150883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lise Esther Herman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lise Esther |
| FAMILY NAME | Herman |
| SIGNATURE | HERMAN L E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9796-5922 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Shades of Negativity in European Parliament Debates: Exploring the Affective Dimension of Political Conflict in the EU’s Rule of Law Crisis
This article seeks to explore the nature and determinants of political conflict in European Parliament (EP) debates within the unique context of the Rule of Law Crisis (RoLC). While previous research on this topic has mainly studied the ideological dimension of this conflict, we shift focus to the affective dimension, analysing the roles of negative sentiment and motive-based criticism through a quantitative analysis of 53 hand-coded debates. We …
Does the radical left stand up for liberal democracy in the European parliament? Evidence from 53 debates on the rule of law crisis
While the radical left has strong connections to the tradition of liberal democracy, it also has associations with authoritarian forms of rule and a tolerance of illiberal transgressions when perpetrated by sister parties. Through an exploration of 53 European Parliamentary debates from 2011 to 2022, this paper illuminates a hitherto neglected part of the Rule of Law Crisis, namely the extent to which radical left parties defend liberal democracy…
Getting Central and Eastern Europe Right? How Greater Academic Pluralism Would Improve Collective Knowledge-Building in Democratization Studies
Dancing with the devil? Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen and the articulation of a new political divide in France
This paper investigates how political challengers articulate new political divides in European political party systems and with what implications for representative democracy. Focusing on the case of France and the discourse and practices of Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, the paper identifies three strategies these actors have used to articulate a new political division beyond Left and Right: the discursive rejection of traditional Left/Right…
A climate of optimism? EU policy-making, political science and the democratization of Central and Eastern Europe (2000–2015)
Democratic erosion in the EU’s Central and Eastern European (CEE) member states has confounded EU policy-makers. In this paper, we investigate the assumptions behind the climate of optimism about CEE democratization that prevailed in EU decision-making before and after the 5th and 6th enlargements, and the extent to which political science participated in this intellectual climate. Based on a qualitative analysis of EU decision-making in the earl…
The French Elections of 2022: Macron's Half Victory in a Changing Political Landscape
This is the final version. Available on open access from Wiley via the DOI in this record
Why does the European Right accommodate backsliding states? An analysis of 24 European People’s Party votes (2011–2019)
Over the last decade, the EU’s fundamental values have been under threat at the national level, in particular among several Central and Eastern European states that joined the EU since 2004. During this time, the European People’s Party (EPP) has been criticized for its unwillingness to vote for measures that would sanction the Hungarian Fidesz government, one of its members, in breach of key democratic principles since 2010. In this paper, we se…
Resisting Abusive Legalism: Electoral Fairness and the Partisan Commitment to Political Pluralism
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
Can partisans be pluralist? A comparative study of party member discourse in France and Hungary
Pluralist norms, which prescribe certain attitudes of openness and mutual respect for diverging views, have long been considered a central pillar of liberal democracy. While democratic theorists have championed these values, they have been conflicted as to the capacity of political parties to carry them. Partisanship is widely recognized as an essential institution of democratic regimes but it has also been traditionally associated with intransig…
Trumping the Mainstream: The Conquest of Democratic Politics by the Populist Radical Right
Democratic Partisanship: From Theoretical Ideal to Empirical Standard
In recent years, a number of scholars have taken parties and partisanship as objects of normative theorizing. They posit partisanship as a fundamentally democratic practice and develop a model of what partisans can do at their best to contribute to liberal democracy. However, the standards the literature puts forth remain insufficiently specified to serve as empirical benchmarks. This article further conceptualizes this model of democratic partis…
Re-evaluating the post-communist success story: Party elite loyalty, citizen mobilization and the erosion of Hungarian democracy
In light of the instability of several Central Eastern European democracies following their accession to the European Union, most dramatically embodied by the ‘constitutional revolution’ taking place in Hungary since April 2010, this paper offers a critical reading of the dominant, rational-institutionalist model of democratic consolidation. Drawing on the Hungarian case, it argues that the conditions set out by this model are insufficient for en…
Re-evaluating the post-communist success story: Party elite loyalty, citizen mobilization and the erosion of Hungarian democracy
In light of the instability of several Central Eastern European democracies following their accession to the European Union, most dramatically embodied by the ‘constitutional revolution’ taking place in Hungary since April 2010, this paper offers a critical reading of the dominant, rational-institutionalist model of democratic consolidation. Drawing on the Hungarian case, it argues that the conditions set out by this model are insufficient for en…
Why does the European Right accommodate backsliding states? An analysis of 24 European People’s Party votes (2011–2019)
Over the last decade, the EU’s fundamental values have been under threat at the national level, in particular among several Central and Eastern European states that joined the EU since 2004. During this time, the European People’s Party (EPP) has been criticized for its unwillingness to vote for measures that would sanction the Hungarian Fidesz government, one of its members, in breach of key democratic principles since 2010. In this paper, we se…
Democratic Partisanship: From Theoretical Ideal to Empirical Standard
In recent years, a number of scholars have taken parties and partisanship as objects of normative theorizing. They posit partisanship as a fundamentally democratic practice and develop a model of what partisans can do at their best to contribute to liberal democracy. However, the standards the literature puts forth remain insufficiently specified to serve as empirical benchmarks. This article further conceptualizes this model of democratic partis…
The French Elections of 2022: Macron's Half Victory in a Changing Political Landscape
This is the final version. Available on open access from Wiley via the DOI in this record
Resisting Abusive Legalism: Electoral Fairness and the Partisan Commitment to Political Pluralism
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
Dancing with the devil? Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen and the articulation of a new political divide in France
This paper investigates how political challengers articulate new political divides in European political party systems and with what implications for representative democracy. Focusing on the case of France and the discourse and practices of Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, the paper identifies three strategies these actors have used to articulate a new political division beyond Left and Right: the discursive rejection of traditional Left/Right…
A climate of optimism? EU policy-making, political science and the democratization of Central and Eastern Europe (2000–2015)
Democratic erosion in the EU’s Central and Eastern European (CEE) member states has confounded EU policy-makers. In this paper, we investigate the assumptions behind the climate of optimism about CEE democratization that prevailed in EU decision-making before and after the 5th and 6th enlargements, and the extent to which political science participated in this intellectual climate. Based on a qualitative analysis of EU decision-making in the earl…
Can partisans be pluralist? A comparative study of party member discourse in France and Hungary
Pluralist norms, which prescribe certain attitudes of openness and mutual respect for diverging views, have long been considered a central pillar of liberal democracy. While democratic theorists have championed these values, they have been conflicted as to the capacity of political parties to carry them. Partisanship is widely recognized as an essential institution of democratic regimes but it has also been traditionally associated with intransig…
Re-evaluating the post-communist success story: Party elite loyalty, citizen mobilization and the erosion of Hungarian democracy
In light of the instability of several Central Eastern European democracies following their accession to the European Union, most dramatically embodied by the ‘constitutional revolution’ taking place in Hungary since April 2010, this paper offers a critical reading of the dominant, rational-institutionalist model of democratic consolidation. Drawing on the Hungarian case, it argues that the conditions set out by this model are insufficient for en…
Democratic Partisanship: From Theoretical Ideal to Empirical Standard
In recent years, a number of scholars have taken parties and partisanship as objects of normative theorizing. They posit partisanship as a fundamentally democratic practice and develop a model of what partisans can do at their best to contribute to liberal democracy. However, the standards the literature puts forth remain insufficiently specified to serve as empirical benchmarks. This article further conceptualizes this model of democratic partis…
Trumping the Mainstream: The Conquest of Democratic Politics by the Populist Radical Right
Can partisans be pluralist? A comparative study of party member discourse in France and Hungary
Pluralist norms, which prescribe certain attitudes of openness and mutual respect for diverging views, have long been considered a central pillar of liberal democracy. While democratic theorists have championed these values, they have been conflicted as to the capacity of political parties to carry them. Partisanship is widely recognized as an essential institution of democratic regimes but it has also been traditionally associated with intransig…
Why does the European Right accommodate backsliding states? An analysis of 24 European People’s Party votes (2011–2019)
Over the last decade, the EU’s fundamental values have been under threat at the national level, in particular among several Central and Eastern European states that joined the EU since 2004. During this time, the European People’s Party (EPP) has been criticized for its unwillingness to vote for measures that would sanction the Hungarian Fidesz government, one of its members, in breach of key democratic principles since 2010. In this paper, we se…
Resisting Abusive Legalism: Electoral Fairness and the Partisan Commitment to Political Pluralism
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
A climate of optimism? EU policy-making, political science and the democratization of Central and Eastern Europe (2000–2015)
Democratic erosion in the EU’s Central and Eastern European (CEE) member states has confounded EU policy-makers. In this paper, we investigate the assumptions behind the climate of optimism about CEE democratization that prevailed in EU decision-making before and after the 5th and 6th enlargements, and the extent to which political science participated in this intellectual climate. Based on a qualitative analysis of EU decision-making in the earl…
The French Elections of 2022: Macron's Half Victory in a Changing Political Landscape
This is the final version. Available on open access from Wiley via the DOI in this record
Dancing with the devil? Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen and the articulation of a new political divide in France
This paper investigates how political challengers articulate new political divides in European political party systems and with what implications for representative democracy. Focusing on the case of France and the discourse and practices of Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, the paper identifies three strategies these actors have used to articulate a new political division beyond Left and Right: the discursive rejection of traditional Left/Right…
Getting Central and Eastern Europe Right? How Greater Academic Pluralism Would Improve Collective Knowledge-Building in Democratization Studies
Shades of Negativity in European Parliament Debates: Exploring the Affective Dimension of Political Conflict in the EU’s Rule of Law Crisis
This article seeks to explore the nature and determinants of political conflict in European Parliament (EP) debates within the unique context of the Rule of Law Crisis (RoLC). While previous research on this topic has mainly studied the ideological dimension of this conflict, we shift focus to the affective dimension, analysing the roles of negative sentiment and motive-based criticism through a quantitative analysis of 53 hand-coded debates. We …
Does the radical left stand up for liberal democracy in the European parliament? Evidence from 53 debates on the rule of law crisis
While the radical left has strong connections to the tradition of liberal democracy, it also has associations with authoritarian forms of rule and a tolerance of illiberal transgressions when perpetrated by sister parties. Through an exploration of 53 European Parliamentary debates from 2011 to 2022, this paper illuminates a hitherto neglected part of the Rule of Law Crisis, namely the extent to which radical left parties defend liberal democracy…
Politics (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Democracy (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (7 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (7 works)