The Substance of EU Democracy Promotion [electronic resource] : Concepts and Cases /
Wetzel, A.editor.
Orbie, J.editor.
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.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; 1 The Substance of EU Democracy Promotion: Introduction and Conceptual Framework; Part I: Alternative Reflections on the EU as a Liberal Democracy Promoter; 2 Law Perspective: Praise Undeserved? The EU as a Democracy Promoter: A Sceptical Account; 3 Political Economy Perspective: Fuzzy Liberalism and EU Democracy Promotion: Why Concepts Matter; 4 Critical Social Theory Perspective: Embeddedness as Substance: The EU's Socialized Approach to Democratization
5 Governance Perspective: Democratic Governance Promotion Through Functional CooperationPart II: Country Chapters; 6 Addressing the Remnants of a Communist Past Through Accession: Slovakia and the Czech Republic; 7 Different Trajectories yet the Same Substance: Croatia and Turkey; 8 Promoting Democracy in Post-Conflict Societies: Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo; 9 Power Relations Meet Domestic Structures: Russia and Ukraine; 10 Neither Integrated Nor Comprehensive in Substance: Armenia and Georgia; 11 Democracy Through the Invisible Hand? Egypt and Tunisia
12 When Security Trumps Democracy: Israel and Palestine13 Favouring Leaders over Laggards: Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan; 14 Democracy Promotion in Restrictive Environments: Ethiopia and Eritrea; 15 Responding to Political Crises in the South Pacific: The Solomon Islands and Fiji; 16 Much Ado About Nothing? Brazil and Venezuela; 17 Comparing Country Cases: Output-Oriented EU Democracy Promotion?; Annex: Summary of Substance and BTI Values; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Political economy.
International relations.
European Union.
Economic policy.
Development economics.
Democracy.
International Political Economy.
International Relations.
European Union Politics.
Economic Policy.
Development Economics.
Democracy.