Edgars Eihmanis
Biographic Data
| ID | 4377064 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edgars Eihmanis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edgars |
| FAMILY NAME | Eihmanis |
| SIGNATURE | EIHMANIS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tartu |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7243-4789 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
State debtcraft under illiberalism: Rethinking financial repression and (de)financialization in Orban’s Hungary
How do states practicing financial repression balance orthodox and heterodox macro-financial policies while staying solvent? The article focuses on post-2010 Hungary as a critical case of financial repression, where an illiberal government reasserted state control over financial markets and actors, challenging the literature on subordinate financialization and financial nationalism in the semi-periphery. Introducing the concept of “state debtcraf…
Financial Strategy Experimentation in the Baltic States: Leveraging Policy Legacies and EU Constraints
The literature depicts the economies of the small Baltic states as extreme cases of post‐socialist financialisation within the European Union (EU), where domestic policy space has been constrained by dominant Western banks and the EU's macroeconomic straitjacket. We show that post‐Global Financial Crisis developments challenge the notion of hollowed‐out domestic agency under external constraints, as small and peripheral ‘rule‐taking’ states can c…
Populist party-producer group alliances and divergent developmentalist politics of minimum wages in Poland and Hungary
In the advanced peripheral economies of East-Central Europe, right-wing populist parties have increasingly politicized the dualism between larger, export-competitive foreign-owned enterprises and smaller, inward-oriented and less productive domestically owned firms. By focusing on the two most-similar cases of right-wing populist governments in the region—namely, Hungary and Poland, this paper documents a striking attempt by Poland’s Law and Just…
Enforcing social standards through RRF conditionalities: The European Commission as a social advocate in Latvia and Estonia
The European Commission as a Social Advocate? Dissensus Over RRF Conditionality and Redistributive Reforms in the Neoliberal Baltics
The article analyses governance of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) in three Baltic states as ‘extreme’ cases of RRF dissensus, where the Commission used RRF carrots and sticks to push tax‐financed social and tax reforms against national preferences. Bridging the literature on RRF governance and politicisation of Europe and drawing on document analysis, press and 26 interviews, the article argues that RRF dissensus is shaped by (1) the …
EU transnational coalitions in polycrisis: The Visegrád-4 before and after the Russo-Ukrainian war
The advances in EU integration since COVID-19 and Russia's full-scale invasion have challenged the expectations of cross-cutting cleavages resulting in a 'politics trap'. This article addresses this puzzle through a case study of the Visegrád-4 (V4), a key coalition in EU politics which significantly influenced many policy areas but whose effectiveness has strikingly diminished post-Brexit. Borrowing insights from EU integration theories and the …
Governing the European Union's recovery and resilience facility: National ownership and performance‐based financing in theory and practice
The Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) adopted in response to the COVID‐19 pandemic marks an important departure in European Union (EU) governance, as it introduces an innovative “demand‐driven, performance‐based” model aimed at overcoming the limitations of past policies seeking to promote national reforms. In this study, we set out the theoretical assumptions underlying the RRF governance model, and assess its practical effectiveness and le…
East Central Europe in the Covid-19 crisis
This article introduces the Special Issue on Eastern Europe in the COVID-19 crisis. It seeks to shed light on the different and partly worse experiences in East Central Europe compared to those of the West by analysing the crisis, its governance, and effects in the region from the vantage point of specific vulnerabilities, which have been building up for years. We identify four major vulnerabilities – a severe crisis of care, strains in social so…
Path dependency and partisan interests: Explaining Covid-19 social support programmes in East-Central Europe
What factors influence governments' social policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis in East-Central Europe? We attempt to answer this question by analysing the social policy responses to the pandemic across three distinct institutional varieties and welfare states: Estonia, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Drawing on extensive analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, we argue that the constraints on government agency posed by previous, posttransition…
Cherry-picking external constraints: Latvia and EU economic governance, 2008–2014
Published online: 29 August 2017
Cherry-picking external constraints: Latvia and EU economic governance, 2008–2014
Published online: 29 August 2017
Governing the European Union's recovery and resilience facility: National ownership and performance‐based financing in theory and practice
The Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) adopted in response to the COVID‐19 pandemic marks an important departure in European Union (EU) governance, as it introduces an innovative “demand‐driven, performance‐based” model aimed at overcoming the limitations of past policies seeking to promote national reforms. In this study, we set out the theoretical assumptions underlying the RRF governance model, and assess its practical effectiveness and le…
East Central Europe in the Covid-19 crisis
This article introduces the Special Issue on Eastern Europe in the COVID-19 crisis. It seeks to shed light on the different and partly worse experiences in East Central Europe compared to those of the West by analysing the crisis, its governance, and effects in the region from the vantage point of specific vulnerabilities, which have been building up for years. We identify four major vulnerabilities – a severe crisis of care, strains in social so…
Path dependency and partisan interests: Explaining Covid-19 social support programmes in East-Central Europe
What factors influence governments' social policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis in East-Central Europe? We attempt to answer this question by analysing the social policy responses to the pandemic across three distinct institutional varieties and welfare states: Estonia, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Drawing on extensive analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, we argue that the constraints on government agency posed by previous, posttransition…
Cherry-picking external constraints: Latvia and EU economic governance, 2008–2014
Published online: 29 August 2017
East Central Europe in the Covid-19 crisis
This article introduces the Special Issue on Eastern Europe in the COVID-19 crisis. It seeks to shed light on the different and partly worse experiences in East Central Europe compared to those of the West by analysing the crisis, its governance, and effects in the region from the vantage point of specific vulnerabilities, which have been building up for years. We identify four major vulnerabilities – a severe crisis of care, strains in social so…
Path dependency and partisan interests: Explaining Covid-19 social support programmes in East-Central Europe
What factors influence governments' social policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis in East-Central Europe? We attempt to answer this question by analysing the social policy responses to the pandemic across three distinct institutional varieties and welfare states: Estonia, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Drawing on extensive analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, we argue that the constraints on government agency posed by previous, posttransition…
EU transnational coalitions in polycrisis: The Visegrád-4 before and after the Russo-Ukrainian war
The advances in EU integration since COVID-19 and Russia's full-scale invasion have challenged the expectations of cross-cutting cleavages resulting in a 'politics trap'. This article addresses this puzzle through a case study of the Visegrád-4 (V4), a key coalition in EU politics which significantly influenced many policy areas but whose effectiveness has strikingly diminished post-Brexit. Borrowing insights from EU integration theories and the …
Governing the European Union's recovery and resilience facility: National ownership and performance‐based financing in theory and practice
The Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) adopted in response to the COVID‐19 pandemic marks an important departure in European Union (EU) governance, as it introduces an innovative “demand‐driven, performance‐based” model aimed at overcoming the limitations of past policies seeking to promote national reforms. In this study, we set out the theoretical assumptions underlying the RRF governance model, and assess its practical effectiveness and le…
Populist party-producer group alliances and divergent developmentalist politics of minimum wages in Poland and Hungary
In the advanced peripheral economies of East-Central Europe, right-wing populist parties have increasingly politicized the dualism between larger, export-competitive foreign-owned enterprises and smaller, inward-oriented and less productive domestically owned firms. By focusing on the two most-similar cases of right-wing populist governments in the region—namely, Hungary and Poland, this paper documents a striking attempt by Poland’s Law and Just…
Enforcing social standards through RRF conditionalities: The European Commission as a social advocate in Latvia and Estonia
The European Commission as a Social Advocate? Dissensus Over RRF Conditionality and Redistributive Reforms in the Neoliberal Baltics
The article analyses governance of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) in three Baltic states as ‘extreme’ cases of RRF dissensus, where the Commission used RRF carrots and sticks to push tax‐financed social and tax reforms against national preferences. Bridging the literature on RRF governance and politicisation of Europe and drawing on document analysis, press and 26 interviews, the article argues that RRF dissensus is shaped by (1) the …
State debtcraft under illiberalism: Rethinking financial repression and (de)financialization in Orban’s Hungary
How do states practicing financial repression balance orthodox and heterodox macro-financial policies while staying solvent? The article focuses on post-2010 Hungary as a critical case of financial repression, where an illiberal government reasserted state control over financial markets and actors, challenging the literature on subordinate financialization and financial nationalism in the semi-periphery. Introducing the concept of “state debtcraf…
Financial Strategy Experimentation in the Baltic States: Leveraging Policy Legacies and EU Constraints
The literature depicts the economies of the small Baltic states as extreme cases of post‐socialist financialisation within the European Union (EU), where domestic policy space has been constrained by dominant Western banks and the EU's macroeconomic straitjacket. We show that post‐Global Financial Crisis developments challenge the notion of hollowed‐out domestic agency under external constraints, as small and peripheral ‘rule‐taking’ states can c…
Economics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (6 works) · European union (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Corporate governance (4 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Law (3 works)