Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe: Volume 2: International and Transnational Factors (Oxford Studies in Democratization) - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 019924409X ISBN 13: 9780199244096

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Alex Pravda is at St Antony's College, Oxford. Jan Zielonka is at European University Institute.

Contenuti:

• Alex Pravda: Introduction
• PART 1 COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
• 1: Karen E. Smith: Western Actors and the Promotion of Democracy
• 2: Iver Neumann: Regionalization and Democratic Consolidation
• 3: Susan Senior Nello: The Impact of External Economic Factors: The Role of the IMF
• 4: Reimund Seidelmann: International Security and Democracy-Building
• 5: S. Neil MacFarlane: The Internationalization of Ethnic Strife
• 6: Ewa Morawska: International Migration and the Consolidation of Democracy
• 7: Leslie Holmes: Crime, Corruption and Politics: Transnational Factors
• 8: Stephen Whitefield and Geoffrey Evans: Attitudes towards the West, Democracy and the Market
• PART 2 NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
• 9: Vello Pettai: Estonia and Latvia: International Influences on Citizenship and Minority Intergration
• 10: László Valki: The Case of Hungary
• 11: Antoni Kaminski: Poland: Compatibility of External and Internal Democratic Designs
• 12: Milada Anna Vachudová: The Czech Republic: The Unexpected Force of Institutional Constraints
• 13: Ivo Samson: Slovakia: Misreading the Western Message
• 14: Tom Gallagher: Building Democracy in Romania: Internal Shortcomings and External Neglect
• 15: Kyril Drezov: Bulgaria and Macedonia: Voluntary Dependence on External Actors
• 16: Radovan Vukadinovic: Yugoslavia: International Efforts to Link Peace, Stability and Democracy
• 17: Taras Kuzio: Belarus and Ukraine: Democracy-Building in a Grey Security Zone
• 18: Marie Mendras: Russia and the West: To Belong or Not to Belong? b
• 19: Jan Zielonka: Foreign Made Democracy

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press, USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 019924409X
• ISBN 13: 9780199244096
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 568
• Redattore: Zielonka Jan