We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
This Cambridge Elements Series provides a platform for timely and rigorous analysis on a range of topics related to Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. It encourages methodological diversity and original research. While advancing a deep knowledge of the local context, it also speaks to broader political science literatures by engaging with theories that travel across regions. The series also seeks to shape policy implications for countries facing similar conditions. It spearheads the decolonization of scholarship by placing greater emphasis on understanding the politics and agency of smaller states.
Individual Elements assess how lessons derived from the region apply to foundational theories in political science. We value scholarship which explores linkages on multiple levels – subnational and national level politics, regional interactions, transnational linkages, and state behavior in the international arena. Elements publish original research.
If you are interested in writing an Element for the Politics and Society from Central Europe series, email editorscambridgeelementspsceca@gmail.com and copy one or more of the four Elements co-editors.
We require two documents: (1) a proposal and (2) a draft of the Element.
The proposal is expected to be 2,500 words. The draft of the Element should be in the range of 10,000-12,000 words, including bibliography. The Element draft can be one or more short chapters or a short version of the entire proposed Element. Elements publish original research. We do not accept previously published work or manuscripts under review as ‘draft of the Element'.
We will only consider submissions that contain both a draft and a proposal.
Proposal
The proposal should provide the following information:
1) Summary of the argument
2) Justification why this research question is important
3) Discussion of the importance of the Element. What is innovative about it? Briefly discuss how the Element will advance state of knowledge of Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Balkans, Russia, Caucuses and Central Asia.
4) Brief description of the methodology and the data.
5) A brief author bio providing the name, affiliation, contact information and the career stage of the author.
6) A short overview of all chapters intended to be in the Element. There is no requirement as to the length of the specific sub-parts of the proposal, as long as the seven parts summarily do not exceed the 2,500-word maximum.
Element draft
The draft of the proposed Element should be 10,000 - 12,000 words long, including the bibliography. Manuscripts that are significantly shorter or longer will not be considered. The draft could include a chapter that describes the theoretical argument of the whole Element or a chapter that showcases a central empirical contribution of the Element. The goal of the draft should be to demonstrate in detail that the argument and the evidence are feasible and compelling and that the Element will have both theoretical and empirical rigour.
These materials will be used to help the series editors decide on whether or not to recommend an initial contract, with publication conditional on the final complete manuscript being approved by peer review.
Maria Popova is an Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University. Her work explores rule of law and democracy in the post-Communist region and, most recently, judicial reform in Ukraine, the politics of corruption prosecutions in Eastern Europe, and conspiracies and illiberalism.
Contact: maria.popova@mcgill.ca
Lenka Buštíková grew up in Prague. She is Professor of political science at the University of Florida and an incoming director of the Centre of European Studies. Before coming to the University of Florida, she taught at the University of Oxford and at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on polarization, party politics and democratic erosion. Her book, Extreme Reactions: Radical Right Mobilization in Eastern Europe, received the Davis Center Book Prize in political and social studies. She currently serves as editor of the journal East European Politics and Routledge Studies on Political Parties and Party Systems.
Contact:
Petra Guasti is an Associate Professor of Democratic Theory at the Charles University in Prague and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on reconfiguring the political landscape and revolves around representation, democratization, and populism. She is currently co-PI of the National recovery program project SYRI, where she also leads a PA5 team working on polarization & populism.
Contact: petra.guasti@fsv.cuni.cz
Gergana Dimova is a Lecturer in Politics at the Florida State University London Program. Her scholarship approaches the study of Eastern European and Russian politics through a number of thematic and analytical lenses, such as democracy, blame games, uncertainty, accountability and the media. She is an associate editor of Democratic Theory and is the convenor of the Politics and Anti-Politics Specialist Group of the UK Political Science Association.
Contact: gd25203@gmail.com