Hilary Appel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3975323 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hilary Appel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hilary |
| FAMILY NAME | Appel |
| SIGNATURE | APPEL H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Claremont McKenna College |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-9081-073X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 204 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Competing narratives of the Russia–Ukraine war
This article examines the narratives surrounding Moscow's full‐scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and beyond. Since the start of the war, Western characterizations of Russia's foreign policy as revanchist and imperialist have been overshadowed by the more successful framing by Russia that its actions were driven by the need to push back on American unipolarity and Western imperialist tendencies. This article examines how the Kremlin's narrative on…
Introduction
Russia's war against Ukraine has had devastating human consequences and destabilizing geopolitical effects. This roundtable takes up three critical debates in connection with the conflict: Ukraine's potential accession to the European Union; the role of Ukrainian nationalism in advancing democratization; and the degree of human rights accountability, not just for Russia, but also for Ukraine. In addition to challenging conventional wisdom on each…
Minority rights, the Roma, and neoliberal reform in EU accession
After the dissolution of the Soviet bloc, joining the European Union was a top priority for most East European countries. To join the EU, the Copenhagen Membership Criteria required that candidate countries develop stable democratic institutions, establish the rule of law, defend human rights, and ensure the protection of minorities in addition to creating free markets. While the EU was extraordinarily successful in promoting economic criteria fo…
Has Russia’s Anti-Nato Agenda Succeeded
Stopping NATO enlargement has become a clear foreign policy priority for Russia. Given the diminished likelihood of Ukrainian and Georgian membership, Russia’s anti-NATO agenda may appear as an unqualified success. However, the net impact of Russia’s anti-NATO foreign policy agenda is quite mixed. Ukraine's and Georgia's stakes for accession have increased and key European NATO members' hesitancy to provoke Russia unnecessarily is clear, but Russ…
Can the EU Stop Eastern Europe's Illiberal Turn
The EU’s activation of Article 7 procedures against Hungary and Poland signals that it is beginning to take seriously the illiberal turn in Central Europe. However, the likelihood that the EU can restrain populist and illiberal tendencies in Hungary and Poland in the near future is slim. Despite the efficacy of the EU and other international organizations in promoting liberalism in these countries in the past, similar efforts are hobbled by a lac…
From Triumph to Crisis
The postcommunist countries were amongst the most fervent and committed adopters of neoliberal economic reforms. Not only did they manage to overcome the anticipated domestic opposition to 'shock therapy' and Washington Consensus reforms, but many fulfilled the membership requirements of the European Union and even adopted avant-garde neoliberal reforms like the flat tax and pension privatization. Neoliberalism in the postcommunist countries went…
How Neoliberal Reforms Lose Their Partisan Identity
In the post-communist world, the flat tax was a popular neoliberal fiscal reform that initially spread through dense networks of rightwing politicians and parties. Over time, its symbolism and appeal broadened, making this specific fiscal approach attractive to a wider range of actors and regimes. By considering the full set of post-communist flat tax cases and the competitive dynamics in the region, this article examines the evolution of this re…
Is Eastern Europe to Blame for Falling Corporate Taxes in Europe
When a dozen new countries joined the European Union in the mid-2000s, political tensions spiked over disparities in corporate income tax rates. Since the time of enlargement, leaders have tried repeatedly to enhance corporate tax coordination within the EU, as a result of fears of downward pressure on corporate tax rates and states’ weakening ability to collect revenues. At the same time, leaders from new member states in Eastern Europe with low…
Why did Neoliberalism Triumph and Endure in the Post-Communist World
Ideas Versus Resources
This article examines the rapid spread of pension privatization and the flat tax in former communist countries to understand why new policy ideas take hold and to elucidate the role played by material resources in the diffusion of new policy ideas. Unlike previous liberalizing reforms, these second-generation reforms spread without direct or indirect EU pressure. Rather, policy entrepreneurs in both instances succeeded in arguing that these refor…
Ideas versus Resources
Is It Putin or Is It Oil? Explaining Russia's Fiscal Recovery
What accounts for the sea change in Russia's fiscal health? This article evaluates several contributing factors: high world energy prices, economic recovery, new tax policies, and the consolidation of state power. By examining the fiscal politics under the Yel'tsin and Putin governments, this article seeks to uncover the relative importance of political and economic causes for the recovery of the tax state in the 2000s. While increased energy pro…
The Changing Face of Europe
Editor's Note:The goals of European integration after the Second World War were (1) to promote peace and stability on the continent and (2) to improve the material well-being of European peoples through greater economic activity and cooperation. With the end of the Cold War, the prospects for lasting peace seemed to many to become more tangible as the greatest ideological, political, and economic divide in Europe—represented dramatically and symb…
International Imperatives and Tax Reform
Anti-Communist Justice and Founding the Post-Communist Order
This article explores how ideas and beliefs shaped the development of programs of retrospective justice. By focusing on lustration, property restitution, and the declassification of secret service files in four central European countries, this article investigates the role of formalized anti-communist programs in the founding of the new political and economic order. After reviewing the development of anti-communist programs in East Germany, the C…
Domestic Budgets in a United Europe
Domestic Budgets in a United Europe: Fiscal Governance from the End of Bretton Woods to EMU. By Mark Hallerberg. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. 258p. $39.95. Why did nearly all European Union member states in the late 1990s succeed in reducing their budget deficits below the necessary 3% threshold in time to join the monetary union, after years of varied success at achieving fiscal discipline? Do the explicit criteria set out by the …
New Capitalist Order
Western Financial Institutions, Local Actors, and the Privatization Paradigm
Local conditions determined the vulnerability of post-communist countries to Western privatization prescriptions
Institutional continuity and change in postcommunist economies
(2004). Institutional continuity and change in postcommunist economies. Review of International Political Economy: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 424-437
Corruption and the Collapse of the Czech Transition Miracle
Corruption and the Collapse of the Czech Transition Miracle
Identity Politics and Economic Reform
OVER THE PAST DECADE THE capitalist and democratic transformations in Eastern Europe have enabled certain countries to integrate successfully in Western institutions and organisations. In contrast to Slovakia, three Central European states, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic have already become members of NATO and expect to join the European Union before long. Curiously, a rapprochement between the West and Slovakia has been much slower. The …
The Ideological Determinants of Liberal Economic Reform
The empirical literature on mass privatization in the postcommunist context emphasizes the preferences and power of interest groups in order to account for the design of privatization. This approach has been consistent with mainstream theories of property rights formation that focus on the self-interested, rationally calculated pursuit of wealth and/or power as the motivation behind the development of new ownership arrangements. Absent from these…
Voucher privatisation in Russia
(1997). Voucher privatisation in Russia: Structural consequences and mass response in the second period of reform. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 49, No. 8, pp. 1433-1449
Justice and the Reformulation of Property Rights in the Czech Republic
Why did Neoliberalism Triumph and Endure in the Post-Communist World
The Ideological Determinants of Liberal Economic Reform
The empirical literature on mass privatization in the postcommunist context emphasizes the preferences and power of interest groups in order to account for the design of privatization. This approach has been consistent with mainstream theories of property rights formation that focus on the self-interested, rationally calculated pursuit of wealth and/or power as the motivation behind the development of new ownership arrangements. Absent from these…
Ideas Versus Resources
This article examines the rapid spread of pension privatization and the flat tax in former communist countries to understand why new policy ideas take hold and to elucidate the role played by material resources in the diffusion of new policy ideas. Unlike previous liberalizing reforms, these second-generation reforms spread without direct or indirect EU pressure. Rather, policy entrepreneurs in both instances succeeded in arguing that these refor…
Domestic Budgets in a United Europe
Domestic Budgets in a United Europe: Fiscal Governance from the End of Bretton Woods to EMU. By Mark Hallerberg. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. 258p. $39.95. Why did nearly all European Union member states in the late 1990s succeed in reducing their budget deficits below the necessary 3% threshold in time to join the monetary union, after years of varied success at achieving fiscal discipline? Do the explicit criteria set out by the …
International Imperatives and Tax Reform
Anti-Communist Justice and Founding the Post-Communist Order
This article explores how ideas and beliefs shaped the development of programs of retrospective justice. By focusing on lustration, property restitution, and the declassification of secret service files in four central European countries, this article investigates the role of formalized anti-communist programs in the founding of the new political and economic order. After reviewing the development of anti-communist programs in East Germany, the C…
Voucher privatisation in Russia
(1997). Voucher privatisation in Russia: Structural consequences and mass response in the second period of reform. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 49, No. 8, pp. 1433-1449
Is It Putin or Is It Oil? Explaining Russia's Fiscal Recovery
What accounts for the sea change in Russia's fiscal health? This article evaluates several contributing factors: high world energy prices, economic recovery, new tax policies, and the consolidation of state power. By examining the fiscal politics under the Yel'tsin and Putin governments, this article seeks to uncover the relative importance of political and economic causes for the recovery of the tax state in the 2000s. While increased energy pro…
Corruption and the Collapse of the Czech Transition Miracle
Identity Politics and Economic Reform
OVER THE PAST DECADE THE capitalist and democratic transformations in Eastern Europe have enabled certain countries to integrate successfully in Western institutions and organisations. In contrast to Slovakia, three Central European states, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic have already become members of NATO and expect to join the European Union before long. Curiously, a rapprochement between the West and Slovakia has been much slower. The …
Can the EU Stop Eastern Europe's Illiberal Turn
The EU’s activation of Article 7 procedures against Hungary and Poland signals that it is beginning to take seriously the illiberal turn in Central Europe. However, the likelihood that the EU can restrain populist and illiberal tendencies in Hungary and Poland in the near future is slim. Despite the efficacy of the EU and other international organizations in promoting liberalism in these countries in the past, similar efforts are hobbled by a lac…
Justice and the Reformulation of Property Rights in the Czech Republic
How Neoliberal Reforms Lose Their Partisan Identity
In the post-communist world, the flat tax was a popular neoliberal fiscal reform that initially spread through dense networks of rightwing politicians and parties. Over time, its symbolism and appeal broadened, making this specific fiscal approach attractive to a wider range of actors and regimes. By considering the full set of post-communist flat tax cases and the competitive dynamics in the region, this article examines the evolution of this re…
Is Eastern Europe to Blame for Falling Corporate Taxes in Europe
When a dozen new countries joined the European Union in the mid-2000s, political tensions spiked over disparities in corporate income tax rates. Since the time of enlargement, leaders have tried repeatedly to enhance corporate tax coordination within the EU, as a result of fears of downward pressure on corporate tax rates and states’ weakening ability to collect revenues. At the same time, leaders from new member states in Eastern Europe with low…
Western Financial Institutions, Local Actors, and the Privatization Paradigm
Local conditions determined the vulnerability of post-communist countries to Western privatization prescriptions
Corruption and the Collapse of the Czech Transition Miracle
Some Personality Correlates of Suggestibility in Normals and Neurotics
Groups of 25 normals and 21 neurotics were given a Sway test, Rorschach Compliance Test, and questionnaire measures of anxiety, dependency, hostility and neuroticism. The two groups differed significantly in neuroticism, dependency, anxiety, and hostility. The groups did not differ significantly in Sway test suggestibility, nor was there a correlation in either group between suggestibility and neuroticism score. Dependency correlated significantl…
Justice and the Reformulation of Property Rights in the Czech Republic
Voucher privatisation in Russia
(1997). Voucher privatisation in Russia: Structural consequences and mass response in the second period of reform. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 49, No. 8, pp. 1433-1449
Identity Politics and Economic Reform
OVER THE PAST DECADE THE capitalist and democratic transformations in Eastern Europe have enabled certain countries to integrate successfully in Western institutions and organisations. In contrast to Slovakia, three Central European states, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic have already become members of NATO and expect to join the European Union before long. Curiously, a rapprochement between the West and Slovakia has been much slower. The …
The Ideological Determinants of Liberal Economic Reform
The empirical literature on mass privatization in the postcommunist context emphasizes the preferences and power of interest groups in order to account for the design of privatization. This approach has been consistent with mainstream theories of property rights formation that focus on the self-interested, rationally calculated pursuit of wealth and/or power as the motivation behind the development of new ownership arrangements. Absent from these…
Corruption and the Collapse of the Czech Transition Miracle
Corruption and the Collapse of the Czech Transition Miracle
New Capitalist Order
Western Financial Institutions, Local Actors, and the Privatization Paradigm
Local conditions determined the vulnerability of post-communist countries to Western privatization prescriptions
Institutional continuity and change in postcommunist economies
(2004). Institutional continuity and change in postcommunist economies. Review of International Political Economy: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 424-437
Anti-Communist Justice and Founding the Post-Communist Order
This article explores how ideas and beliefs shaped the development of programs of retrospective justice. By focusing on lustration, property restitution, and the declassification of secret service files in four central European countries, this article investigates the role of formalized anti-communist programs in the founding of the new political and economic order. After reviewing the development of anti-communist programs in East Germany, the C…
Domestic Budgets in a United Europe
Domestic Budgets in a United Europe: Fiscal Governance from the End of Bretton Woods to EMU. By Mark Hallerberg. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. 258p. $39.95. Why did nearly all European Union member states in the late 1990s succeed in reducing their budget deficits below the necessary 3% threshold in time to join the monetary union, after years of varied success at achieving fiscal discipline? Do the explicit criteria set out by the …
The Changing Face of Europe
Editor's Note:The goals of European integration after the Second World War were (1) to promote peace and stability on the continent and (2) to improve the material well-being of European peoples through greater economic activity and cooperation. With the end of the Cold War, the prospects for lasting peace seemed to many to become more tangible as the greatest ideological, political, and economic divide in Europe—represented dramatically and symb…
International Imperatives and Tax Reform
Is It Putin or Is It Oil? Explaining Russia's Fiscal Recovery
What accounts for the sea change in Russia's fiscal health? This article evaluates several contributing factors: high world energy prices, economic recovery, new tax policies, and the consolidation of state power. By examining the fiscal politics under the Yel'tsin and Putin governments, this article seeks to uncover the relative importance of political and economic causes for the recovery of the tax state in the 2000s. While increased energy pro…
Ideas versus Resources
Ideas Versus Resources
This article examines the rapid spread of pension privatization and the flat tax in former communist countries to understand why new policy ideas take hold and to elucidate the role played by material resources in the diffusion of new policy ideas. Unlike previous liberalizing reforms, these second-generation reforms spread without direct or indirect EU pressure. Rather, policy entrepreneurs in both instances succeeded in arguing that these refor…
Is Eastern Europe to Blame for Falling Corporate Taxes in Europe
When a dozen new countries joined the European Union in the mid-2000s, political tensions spiked over disparities in corporate income tax rates. Since the time of enlargement, leaders have tried repeatedly to enhance corporate tax coordination within the EU, as a result of fears of downward pressure on corporate tax rates and states’ weakening ability to collect revenues. At the same time, leaders from new member states in Eastern Europe with low…
Why did Neoliberalism Triumph and Endure in the Post-Communist World
From Triumph to Crisis
The postcommunist countries were amongst the most fervent and committed adopters of neoliberal economic reforms. Not only did they manage to overcome the anticipated domestic opposition to 'shock therapy' and Washington Consensus reforms, but many fulfilled the membership requirements of the European Union and even adopted avant-garde neoliberal reforms like the flat tax and pension privatization. Neoliberalism in the postcommunist countries went…
How Neoliberal Reforms Lose Their Partisan Identity
In the post-communist world, the flat tax was a popular neoliberal fiscal reform that initially spread through dense networks of rightwing politicians and parties. Over time, its symbolism and appeal broadened, making this specific fiscal approach attractive to a wider range of actors and regimes. By considering the full set of post-communist flat tax cases and the competitive dynamics in the region, this article examines the evolution of this re…
Can the EU Stop Eastern Europe's Illiberal Turn
The EU’s activation of Article 7 procedures against Hungary and Poland signals that it is beginning to take seriously the illiberal turn in Central Europe. However, the likelihood that the EU can restrain populist and illiberal tendencies in Hungary and Poland in the near future is slim. Despite the efficacy of the EU and other international organizations in promoting liberalism in these countries in the past, similar efforts are hobbled by a lac…
Has Russia’s Anti-Nato Agenda Succeeded
Stopping NATO enlargement has become a clear foreign policy priority for Russia. Given the diminished likelihood of Ukrainian and Georgian membership, Russia’s anti-NATO agenda may appear as an unqualified success. However, the net impact of Russia’s anti-NATO foreign policy agenda is quite mixed. Ukraine's and Georgia's stakes for accession have increased and key European NATO members' hesitancy to provoke Russia unnecessarily is clear, but Russ…
Competing narratives of the Russia–Ukraine war
This article examines the narratives surrounding Moscow's full‐scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and beyond. Since the start of the war, Western characterizations of Russia's foreign policy as revanchist and imperialist have been overshadowed by the more successful framing by Russia that its actions were driven by the need to push back on American unipolarity and Western imperialist tendencies. This article examines how the Kremlin's narrative on…
Introduction
Russia's war against Ukraine has had devastating human consequences and destabilizing geopolitical effects. This roundtable takes up three critical debates in connection with the conflict: Ukraine's potential accession to the European Union; the role of Ukrainian nationalism in advancing democratization; and the degree of human rights accountability, not just for Russia, but also for Ukraine. In addition to challenging conventional wisdom on each…
Political science (25 works) · Economics (21 works) · Law (18 works) · Political economy (17 works) · Politics (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Economic system (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Communism (7 works) · European union (7 works)