Comparative Perspectives On The Substance Of Eu Democracy Promotion
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| Author | : Anne Wetzel |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 151 |
| Release | : 2017-10-02 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1317295390 |
This book examines the substance of European Union (EU) democracy promotion by comparing it with norms of governance that other international actors promote, among them the United Nations, the United States, the Central and East European EU member states, Russia, China and non-governmental organizations. It aims is to gain a better understanding of the EU’s democracy promotion agenda and to learn more about the (in)distinctiveness of the norms diffused by the EU. Building on a common conceptual chapter, the contributions follow different theoretical approaches and research designs, and focus on a diversity of case studies. The book concludes that in comparison with other international actors, the EU’s conceptual approach to democracy promotion is diffuse, which in turn makes the EU a particularly flexible but also ‘technical’ democracy promoter when it comes to implementation. At the same time, there are limits to flexibility at the level of concepts and frames. This indicates a distinct character of the substance of EU democracy promotion, which can be linked to the nature of the EU polity. This book was published as a special issue of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs.
| Author | : A. Wetzel |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 2015-02-17 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1137466324 |
The book investigates the substance of the European Union's (EU) democracy promotion policy. It focuses on elections, civil and political rights, horizontal accountability, effective power to govern, stateness, state administrative capacity, civil society, and socio-economic context as components of embedded liberal democracy.
| Author | : John D Nagle |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 1999-05-28 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780761956792 |
This wide-ranging overview of the processes of democratization in post-Communist Europe, places the transitions in East-Central Europe within a broad European and global context. The authors begin with a introduction to the concept and theories of democracy and then examine the emerging politics of the new democracies to set the post-Communist transitions in longer-term comparative perspective with earlier and existing processes of democratization in Southern Europe, Latin America, and East and Southeast Asia. Finally the politics of EU accession are introduced to place the transitions within the wider context of European integration. Concluding with a summary of recent critiques of modern democ
| Author | : Jan Zielonka |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2015-10-08 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0191064777 |
This book analyses the relationship between the media and politics in new democracies in Europe and other parts of the world. It does so from both theoretical and empirical angles. How is power being mediated in new democracies? Can media function independently in the unstable and polarised political environment experienced after the fall of autocracy? Do major shifts in economic and ownership structures help or hinder the quality of the media? How much can new media laws alter old journalistic habits and political cultures? And how do new technologies impact the media and democracy? The book examines these questions, drawing on a vast set of data assembled by a large international project. Media and Politics in New Democracies focuses chiefly on new democracies in Central and Eastern Europe, but chapters analysing new democracies in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia are also included. These new democracies represent a variety of what sociologists call 'glocalism': homogenisation and heterogenisation coexist, revealing hybrid models and multiple modernities. It is local culture that assigns meaning to global and regional influences. 'Ideal' liberal models and best practices are being promoted and aspired to, but these models and practices are often being adopted in opaque ways generating results opposite to those intended. The book finds many new democracies to be fragile if not deficient, and tries to show what is really going on in these countries, how they compare to each other, and what they can learn from each other.
| Author | : A. Wetzel |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 2015-02-17 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1137466324 |
The book investigates the substance of the European Union's (EU) democracy promotion policy. It focuses on elections, civil and political rights, horizontal accountability, effective power to govern, stateness, state administrative capacity, civil society, and socio-economic context as components of embedded liberal democracy.
| Author | : Benedetta Berti |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 171 |
| Release | : 2015-09-16 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1317502426 |
New democracies are uniquely positioned to promote democratic values and have a competitive advantage in the global democracy assistance industry. This book examines the attempts of one group of young democracies, from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), to channel this pro-democracy agenda into both national and European foreign policy and development support. It looks at how CEE is ‘upstream’ changing the EU on crucial policy issues as part of the common foreign and security policy. Furthermore, it tracks the process whereby imported ideas and norms are recycled for further export ‘downstream’, and how these concepts are received in countries outside of the EU including the post-Soviet space, the Western Balkans, the Middle East and North Africa region and Central Asia. This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of democratisation studies, European Union studies, comparative politics, international relations, international development, European politics, as well as area/regional studies.
| Author | : A. Magen |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 299 |
| Release | : 2009-07-31 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0230244521 |
European and American experts systematically compare U.S. and EU strategies to promote democracy around the world – from the Middle East and the Mediterranean, to Latin America, the former Soviet bloc, and Southeast Asia. In doing so, the authors debunk the pernicious myth that there exists a transatlantic divide over democracy promotion.
| Author | : Anne Wetzel |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2011 |
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| Author | : Marek Neuman |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 205 |
| Release | : 2018-07-20 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 331992690X |
This book presents a topical, holistic assessment of the European Union’s democracy promotion in South-East Europe, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, analyzed through the prism of the Normative Power Europe (NPE) framework of transnational policy formation. To do so, it brings together three scholarly domains that traditionally stand apart and are discussed separately. The first addresses the notion of the European Union conducting a normatively-driven foreign policy both near and far abroad. The second is concerned with the legitimacy, operationality, and effectiveness of promoting democracy in third-world countries. The third addresses the quality of the relationship the European Union has been able to establish with some vital – yet often troubled – countries in South-East Europe, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Finally, based on the empirical findings presented in each chapter, this volume concludes by rethinking the concept and relevance of NPE to the field’s understanding of the EU’s foreign policy making. This edited volume offers the reader both a theoretically and empirically rich analysis of the European Union’s efforts to promote democracy abroad. As such is scholars and students of EU studies, particularly EU foreign policy, as well as policy makers at EU and national level and civil society representatives responsible for designing/implementing democracy promoting projects on the ground.
| Author | : Sandra Lavenex |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 186 |
| Release | : 2017-05-31 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9781138109865 |
EU external democracy promotion has traditionally been based on �linkage�, i.e. bottom-up support for democratic forces in third countries, and �leverage�, i.e. the top-down inducement of political elites towards democratic reforms through political conditionality. The advent of the European Neighbourhood Policy and new forms of association have introduced a new, third model of democracy promotion which rests in functional cooperation between administrations. This volume comparatively defines and assesses these three models of external democracy promotion in the EU�s relations with its eastern and southern neighbours. It argues that while �linkage� has hitherto failed to produce tangible outcomes, and the success of �leverage� has basically been tied to an EU membership perspective, the �governance� model of democracy promotion bears greater potential beyond the circle of candidate countries. This third approach, while not tackling the core institutions of the political system as such, but rather promoting transparency, accountability, and participation at the level of state administration, may turn out to remain the EU�s most tangible form of democratic governance promotion in the future. This book was originally published as a special issue of Democratization.
