Democracy Promotion In The Eus Neighbourhood

Author : Sandra Lavenex
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135710767
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy Promotion in the EU's Neighbourhood written by Sandra Lavenex and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : A. Wetzel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137466324
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Substance of EU Democracy Promotion written by A. Wetzel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Tina Freyburg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137489359
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy Promotion by Functional Cooperation written by Tina Freyburg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a novel 'governance model' of democracy promotion. In detailed case studies of EU cooperation with Moldova, Morocco, and Ukraine, it examines how the EU promotes democratic governance through functional cooperation in the fields of competition policy, the environment, and migration.

Author : Sandra Lavenex
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Special Issue: Democracy Promotion in the EU's Neighbourhood written by Sandra Lavenex and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kristi Raik
Publisher : CEPS
ISBN 13 : 9290796138
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Promoting Democracy Through Civil Society written by Kristi Raik and published by CEPS. This book was released on 2006 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sergiu Buscaneanu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137563265
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regime Dynamics in EU's Eastern Neighbourhood written by Sergiu Buscaneanu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the effectiveness and consistency of EU democracy promotion in its Eastern neighbourhood between 1991 and 2014. It concludes that the EU’s democratization role in this region was, not surprisingly, weak within this time period. However, this weak role only took shape under four domestic and transnational conditions: (a) a higher cost-benefit balance of rule transfer, (b) a lower structural difficulty a given country would need to overcome on its way towards a democratic regime, (c) increased levels of authority distribution across branches of power, and (d) a higher extent of democratic diffusion resulting from regional interactions. In those countries where these domestic and transnational conditions were present, as in Moldova, Ukraine, and Georgia, the EU’s democratizing influence was in causal terms only the tip of the iceberg. Most variation in regime dynamics remains to be explained by domestic and transnational contexts.

Author : Richard Youngs
Publisher : CEPS
ISBN 13 : 9290797908
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is European Democracy Promotion on the Wane? written by Richard Youngs and published by CEPS. This book was released on 2008 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The EU routinely asserts that the promotion of democracy and human rights is central to its international identity. However, while in some places the EU has a relatively strong record as a supporter of democratic values, it is failing to respond effectively to the emergence of a vastly more challenging environment for democracy promotion. This paper reveals serious limits across three strands of democracy policy - the magnitude of incentives offered in return for democratic change, the degree of critical pressure exerted for democratic reform and the scale of European democracy funding. Even where the EU is building on the initiatives it has pursued for the last two decades, the paper demonstrates that these policies fail to measure up to the challenges posed by the new international context.

Author : Anne Wetzel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317295382
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparative Perspectives on the Substance of EU Democracy Promotion written by Anne Wetzel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Tina Freyburg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780230304888
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy Promotion by Functional Cooperation written by Tina Freyburg and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Offering a cutting edge study of the European Union's (EU) promotion of democratic governance in neighbouring countries, this new book makes an original contribution to the study of democracy promotion and of EU external relations by presenting a new governance model of democracy promotion. Through robust analysis of the shortcomings of traditional 'leverage' and 'linkage' models of external democracy promotion in the EU's Eastern and Southern neighbourhood, it presents a novel 'governance model' that fosters transparency, accountability, and participation standards through functional cooperation between policy officials from the EU and neighbouring states. In particular, it examines the impact of democratic governance promotion in detailed case studies of EU sectoral cooperation with Moldova, Morocco, and Ukraine in the three policy fields of competition, environment, and migration."--

Author : Ann-Kristin Jonasson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135017700
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The EU’s Democracy Promotion and the Mediterranean Neighbours written by Ann-Kristin Jonasson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a systematic analysis of the EU’s extensive, but so far largely failed, efforts to promote democracy in the Mediterranean region, thoroughly assessing its democracy promotion in relation to two Mediterranean countries – Jordan and Turkey. By pinpointing essential prerequisites for democracy promotion and analyzing how the EU’s policies have related to these, the author offers a theoretically based analytical framework focused on the importance of the local orientation and ownership of the project of democratization, and the broader dialogue between the democracy promoter and the partner society. The author concludes that there are basic deficiencies in the EU’s democracy promotion, leading to policy implications of vital importance as the EU now grapples with how to make its democracy promotion successful. The EU’s Democracy Promotion and the Mediterranean Neighbours will be of interest to students and scholars of Democratisation studies, EU studies, Middle East Studies and EU Neighbourhood studies.