Embracing democracy in the western Balkans
Subtitle: from postconflict struggles toward European integration
By: Lenard J. Cohen and John R. Lampe
Contributors: Lampe, John R.
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 539
ISBN-13: 9781421403823
Subjects: Politics and government; Democratization; Democracy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The challenges of postconflict democracy building; title: Legacies of communism, conflict, and international intervention; title: New regimes, old routines : institutional innovations and governance challenges; title: Administrative development, the rule of law, and the struggle against corruption; title: Civic engagement, gender politics, and media pluralism : political cultures in flux; title: The transformation of political parties in the western Balkans : from embryonic pluralism to Europeanization; title: The social basis for democratic development : elites, middle classes, and the struggle against poverty; title: The transformation of values : coexisting democratic and illiberal beliefs; title: Belated economic transitions : promise and problems; title: Democracy building and EU accession during a global recession.