Designing Democracy
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Designing Democracy

EU Enlargement and Regime Change in Post-Communist Europe

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Designing Democracy

EU Enlargement and Regime Change in Post-Communist Europe

About this book

Designing Democracy is the first systematic and in-depth study of the effects of the EU's democratic conditionality, originally set out in the Copenhagen conditions of 1993, on the new political systems of Central and Eastern Europe. Using new material drawn from extensive elite interviews in several of these countries as well as in Brussels, the book throws much light on how far the EU enlargement process has really strengthened these new post-Communist democracies following their transitions in the 1990s.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. 1 Theoretical Perspectives on European Enlargement and Democratisation
  8. 2 The EU's Conditionality Strategy: its Development before and after the Fall of Communism
  9. 3 EU Enlargement, Democratisation and Domestic Politics in Post-Communist Europe: Patterns and Problems of Motivation
  10. 4 Post-Communist Accession Governments: Policy Orientation, Institutional Adjustment and Implementing Democratic Conditionality
  11. 5 The Political Arena and Intermediary Actors in Candidate Countries: Political Parties, Opinion-makers and Public Impacts
  12. 6 The Socio-economic Arena and Deepening Democracy: Economic Transformation, Civil Society and Ethnic Minorities in Candidate Countries
  13. Conclusion: Europeanisation and Democratisation – Convergent, Parallel or Conflicting Processes?
  14. Notes
  15. Sources and Selected Bibliography
  16. Index