Democratic Consolidation In Eastern Europe International And Transnational Factors

Author : Jan Zielonka,Alex Pravda
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191529191

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Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe: Volume 2: International and Transnational Factors by Jan Zielonka,Alex Pravda Pdf

This is the second volume in a two-volume series of books on democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe. The first volume focused on the issue of institutional engineering. This second volume analyses the external parameters of democratic consolidation in thirteen Eastern European countries: how different international actors and various economic, cultural and security types of transnational pressures have shaped democratic politics in the region. The aim is to contrast a set of democracy theories with empirical evidence accumulated in Eastern Europe over the last ten years. The volume tries to avoid complex debates about definitions, methods and the uses and misuses of comparative research. Instead it seeks to establish what has really happened in the region, and which of the existing theories are helpful in explaining these developments. The volume is divided into two parts. The first part presents a conceptual and comparative frame of analysis, the second consists of detailed studies of individual countries undergoing democratic consolidation. Case study chapters deal with the following countries: Estonia and Latvia, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and Macedonia, the states of former Yugoslavia, Belarus and Ukraine, and finally Russia. The concluding chapter identifies a set of variables responsible for the enormous impact of external factors on democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe. It conceptualises the interplay of internal and external factors impinging upon democracy, and shows the interplay of different positive and negative types of external pressures. It also evaluates the conscious Western effort to craft or engineer democracy in Eastern Europe.

Author : Jan Zielonka
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199241678

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Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe: Volume 1: Institutional Engineering by Jan Zielonka Pdf

This is the first volume in a series of books on democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe. The series focuses on three major aspects of democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe: institutional engineering, transnational pressures and civil society. This first volume analyses constraints on and opportunities of institutional engineering in Eastern Europe: to what extent and how elites in Eastern Europe have been able to shape, if not manipulate, the politics of democraticconsolidation through institutional means.The aim is to contrast a set of democracy theories with empirical evidence accumulated in Eastern Europe over the last ten years. The volume tries to avoid complex debates about definitions, methods and the uses and misuses of comparative research. Instead it tries to establish what has really happened in the region, and which of the existing theories have proved helpful in explaining these developments.The volume starts with a presentation of conceptual and comparative frameworks, followed by in-depth empirical analyses of the thirteen individual countries undergoing democratic consolidation. The first conceptual and comparative part contains three chapters. The first chapter explains what institutional engineering is about and describes our experiences with institutional engineering in former transitions to democracy. It also focuses on the import and export of institutional designs. Thesecond chapter analyses the utility of constitutions in the process of democratic consolidation. The third chapter compares constitutional designs and problems of implementation in Southern and Eastern Europe. The empirical case studies deal with the following countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary and Poland. And the conclusions evaluate the enormous impact of institutions on politics in Eastern Europe and show how central constitutional designs are to the institutional engineering in the societies undergoing transitions to democracy.

Author : Jan Zielonka,Alex Pravda
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199241682

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Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe: International and transnational factors by Jan Zielonka,Alex Pravda Pdf

This second volume in a series of books on democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe analyzes the external parameters of such a consolidation in thirteen Eastern European countries. It explores how different international actors and various economic, cultural, and security types of transnational pressures have shaped democratic politics in the region, especially over the last decade.

Author : Professor of European Politics Jan Zielonka,Jan Zielonka,Alex Pravda
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199241675

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Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe: Volume 1: Institutional Engineering by Professor of European Politics Jan Zielonka,Jan Zielonka,Alex Pravda Pdf

This is the first volume in a series of books on democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe. The series focuses on three major aspects of democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe: institutional engineering, transnational pressures and civil society. This first volume analyses constraints on and opportunities of institutional engineering in Eastern Europe: to what extent and how elites in Eastern Europe have been able to shape, if not manipulate, the politics of democraticconsolidation through institutional means.The aim is to contrast a set of democracy theories with empirical evidence accumulated in Eastern Europe over the last ten years. The volume tries to avoid complex debates about definitions, methods and the uses and misuses of comparative research. Instead it tries to establish what has really happened in the region, and which of the existing theories have proved helpful in explaining these developments.The volume starts with a presentation of conceptual and comparative frameworks, followed by in-depth empirical analyses of the thirteen individual countries undergoing democratic consolidation. The first conceptual and comparative part contains three chapters. The first chapter explains what institutional engineering is about and describes our experiences with institutional engineering in former transitions to democracy. It also focuses on the import and export of institutional designs. Thesecond chapter analyses the utility of constitutions in the process of democratic consolidation. The third chapter compares constitutional designs and problems of implementation in Southern and Eastern Europe. The empirical case studies deal with the following countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary and Poland. And the conclusions evaluate the enormous impact of institutions on politics in Eastern Europe and show how central constitutional designs are to the institutional engineering in the societies undergoing transitions to democracy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : 6612052589

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Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jan Zielonka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Constitutional History
ISBN : 019924409X

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Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe: Institutional engineering by Jan Zielonka Pdf

Author : Richard Gunther,P. Nikiforos Diamandouros,Hans-Jürgen Puhle
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1995-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0801849829

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The Politics of Democratic Consolidation by Richard Gunther,P. Nikiforos Diamandouros,Hans-Jürgen Puhle Pdf

With democracy on the rise worldwide, questions about "transition" are rapidly being replaced by questions about "consolidation." How can leaders provide for a stable democracy once a nation has made its initial commitment to the rule of law and to popularly edledted government? In The Politics of Democratic Consolidation, a distinguished group of internationally recognized scholars focus on four nations of Southern Europe—Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece—which have successfully consolidated their democratic regimes. Contributors: P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, Richard Gunther, Hans-Jürgen Puhle, Edward Malefakis, Juan J. Linz, Alfred Stepan, Felipe Agüero, Geoffrey Pridham, Sidney Tarrow, Leonardo Morlino, José R. Montero, Gianfranco Pasquino, and Philippe C. Schmitter.

Author : Geoffrey Pridham,Eric Herring,George Sanford,University of Bristol. Dept. of Politics
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0718500997

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Building Democracy by Geoffrey Pridham,Eric Herring,George Sanford,University of Bristol. Dept. of Politics Pdf

International factors have had a great effect upon the process of democratisation in Eastern Europe according to the contributors to this book. Furthermore they maintain that the international dimension has not always been a favourable one.

Author : Geoffrey Pridham,Tatu Vanhanen
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415110645

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Democratization in Eastern Europe by Geoffrey Pridham,Tatu Vanhanen Pdf

In light of the sudden collape of communist systems in Eastern Europe in 1989-90, this book attempts to explain their democratization from a variety of theoretical perspectives.

Author : Kristin J. Broderick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351732925

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The Economy and Political Culture in New Democracies: An Analysis of Democratic Support in Central and Eastern Europe by Kristin J. Broderick Pdf

This title was first published in 2000: This research examines the socio-economic and cultural factors that influence the development of democracy, and also explores how new democracies can be maintained and consolidated. It investigates the consolidation of new democracies in Central and Eastern Europe, which face the hurdle of transforming their economies. The study looks at the effect of economic factors on popular support for democracy and discusses what factors influence citizen commitment to democratic regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. It argues that citizen perception of well-being is an important element in influencing political support. Case studies cover developing democracies in Europe, such as the Czech Republic or Slovakia, and policy implications, specifically in terms of economic policy, are offered that may aid democracies in their consolidation.

Author : Rudolf Martin Rizman
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1585444235

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Uncertain Path by Rudolf Martin Rizman Pdf

In this case study of the politics of transition in Eastern Europe, Rudolf Martin Rizman provides a careful, detailed sociological explanation and narrative on the emergence of independent statehood and democracy in Slovenia, a small state whose experience is of interest to policy makers, scholars, and serious students of Eastern Europe. In his focus on the transition from an authoritarian to a democratic regime, Rizman analyzes social processes and political issues in the context of the Third Wave of democratization, identifying “zones of certainty and uncertainty.” Challenging many generally accepted ideas about small states and their transitions to democracy, this book places Slovenia’s pattern of democratization in the wider regional context of eastern and central European post-communist transitions. Rizman shows, for example, that a country’s size is merely one factor out of many, and while Slovenes considered the influence of larger states, their choices were not particularly circumscribed by them. Opening with a discussion of the relevant theoretical environment in sociology and political science, Rizman illuminates the complex processes of democratic transition and consolidation. From there, the book analyzes the internal and external processes and factors relevant for Slovenia’s successful trajectory from existence as an ethnically defined sub-nation to an internationally recognized nation-state. After careful consideration of religious, political, military, intellectual, and other socio-political stakeholders in the region, including the somewhat disturbing evidence of the salience of a new “radical Right”, Rizman concludes that Slovenia is irreversibly set on the course of democratization, with indications of having reached the early stages of consolidation.

Author : Dirk Berg-Schlosser,Raivo Vetik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015054262897

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Perspectives on Democratic Consolidation in Central and Eastern Europe by Dirk Berg-Schlosser,Raivo Vetik Pdf

This volume consists of twenty studies on problems related to "transition to democracy" in central and eastern Europe during the decade following the collapse of communist states. The book focuses on preconditions and problems of transitions, case studies, patterns of performance and consolidation and inter-regional comparative aspects.

Author : Fritz Plasser,Peter Ulram,Harald Waldrauch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349268160

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Democratic Consolidation in East-Central Europe by Fritz Plasser,Peter Ulram,Harald Waldrauch Pdf

The postcommunist regimes in East-Central Europe are confronted with the double challenge of establishing a democratic order and a market economy. The book discusses the concepts of democratic consolidation and analyzes the development of attitudes towards the political and economic system in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia. The study compares the political values in East-Central Europe with respective attitudes in the USA and Western Europe. Special attention is given to experiences of the consolidation process in Germany, Italy and Austria after 1945 as well as the more recent developments in Latin America and Southern Europe. The final chapter discusses patterns and paths of democratic consolidation in the light of concepts of regime change.

Author : Jean Grugel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134652433

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Democracy without Borders by Jean Grugel Pdf

This book carves out a new area of democratisation studies by analysing the transnational dimension and the role of non state actors across three different geographical regions. Chapters utilise empirical data from Europe, Africa and Latin America.

Author : Sten Berglund
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1782541152

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Challenges to Democracy by Sten Berglund Pdf

'The book is written in a systematic, clear and accessible style and provides an excellent introduction to the state of democracy in contemporary postsocialist Europe. . . . Recommended for undergraduate, graduate, research, and faculty collections.' - P. Rutland, Choice The euphoria evidenced in the aftermath of the collapse of communist regimes in the late 1980s and early 1990s sometimes conveyed the impression that the process of democratization would be achieved without difficulty or tribulation. This book sets out to provide a thorough comparative analysis of the challenges which face the emerging democracies of Central and Eastern Europe and considers the impact of political change. Drawing heavily on available survey data, the book provides an in-depth account of how the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe have coped with four major challenges: political fragmentation, nationalism, lack of respect for human rights, and poorly developed civil service systems. The book demonstrates that although the first few years of the 1990s were marked by increasing disenchantment with the new regimes, the change of governments as a direct result of the electoral process and the prospects for European integration have served to reverse this negative trend. Indeed, the authors find that the new political systems have managed to cope with the challenges so effectively that striking similarities with Western democracies are now apparent.