Democracy in the Post-Communist World: An Unending Quest?

Ekiert, Grzegorz; Kubı́k, Jan; Vachudová, Milada Anna

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“…Both surveys thus confirm a delta convergence for the Western Balkans and Southeast Europe with respect to the absolute benchmarks set by the best possible survey scores, but also regarding the benchmarks derived from the mean scores of the East-Central European states. The surveys also coincide in con-firming a delta convergence trend for the EECA region in relation to East-Central Europe for the period between 2005 and 2007: the distances between the mean EECA ratings and the mean ratings for East-Central Europe declined which seems to contradict the finding of a divergence (Ekiert, Kubik, and Vachudová 2007). In the longer period between 1999 and 2007, however, the distance between EECA and the advanced East-Central European countries has increased, confirming Ekiert et al…”

Section: Indicator-based Assessments Of Convergencesupporting

confidence: 62%

Evidence of convergence? The Western Balkan countries in democracy and governance assessments

Brusis¹

2008

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies

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The article analyses and compares how democracy and governance assessments evaluate Southeast European countries. Datasets and expert studies from the Bertelsmann Foundation, the Economist Intelligence Unit, Freedom House, the Polity project and the World Bank Institute have been selected to compare numerical ratings and verbal assessments, cross-nationally within Southeast Europe, in comparison with other regions of Europe and over time. The main findings are: The differential placement of states on levels of relations between the EU and Southeast Europe correlates with the ranking of states emerging from the surveys, while there is scarce evidence of a clear causality in either direction. The successive upgrading of relations between the EU and the Southeast European countries also corresponds to convergence trends observed by two of the surveys. Differences in the relative placement of states by individual surveys can only partially be explained by the country reports attached to the surveys, suggesting further methodological improvements.

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Section: Indicator-based Assessments Of Convergencesupporting

confidence: 62%

Evidence of convergence? The Western Balkan countries in democracy and governance assessments

Brusis¹

2008

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies

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“…The EU's impact on democratic consolidation was most pronounced in fragile democracies that did not quickly install liberal-democratic regimes in the early 1990s (Armingeon and Careja 2008;Ekiert et al 2007;Noutcheva and Bechev 2008;Pop-Eleches 2007a;Pridham 2005;Schimmelfennig and Sedelmeier 2005a;Vachudová 2005). The EU had an impact in such states when nationalist or authoritarian forces lost elections to liberal forces, such as in Slovakia, Croatia, or Romania.…”

Section: Liberal Democratic Principlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Europeanisation in new member and candidate states

Sedelmeier¹

2011

Living Rev. Euro. Gov.

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The Europeanisation of candidate countries and new members is a rather recent research area that has grown strongly since the early 2000s. Research in this area has developed primarily in the context of the EU's eastern enlargement. A small number of theoretically informed book-length studies of the EU's influence on the Central and Eastern European candidate countries have provided a generalisable conceptual framework for this research area, drawing on the debate between rationalist institutionalist and constructivist institutionalist approaches in International Relations and Comparative Politics. This framework makes these studies highly compatible with analyses of the Europeanisation of member states, with which they also share one key empirical finding, namely that the impact of the EU on candidate countries is differential across countries and issue areas. At the same time, the theoretical implications of these findings appear more clear-cut than in the case of the Europeanisation of member states: rationalist institutionalism, with its focus on the external incentives underpinning EU conditionality and the material costs incurred by domestic veto players, appears well-suited to explaining variation in the patterns of Europeanisation in candidate countries. A very recent development within this research agenda is the focus on the Europeanisation of new member states. While the study of the EU's impact during the early years of membership was hitherto primarily a subfield of analyses of the Europeanisation of member states, it has now become an extension of studies of candidate countries by analysing the impact of accession on the dynamics of pre-accession Europeanisation and how durable and distinctive the patterns of candidate Europeanisation are in the post-accession stage.

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“…With some important nuances, Pridham (2001; shared this optimistic EUfacilitates-democratization vision despite his concerns about possible bureaucratization of 1 Vachudova in another group project (Ekiert, Kubik and Vachudova, 2007) made nuances to these high expectations regarding the role of EU in post-communist democratization. EU continued to play a positive pro-democratic role, but the external factors, including EU, became less important among other factors within a multivariable model that tried to explain the post-communist democratization.…”

Section: I2aa European Integration Contributes To Democratizationmentioning

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The Role of European Union Integration in Post-Communist Democratization in Bulgaria and Macedonia

Mitropolitski¹

2013

Canadian Slavonic Papers

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Democracy in the Post-Communist World: An Unending Quest?

Cited by 79 publications

References 4 publications

Evidence of convergence? The Western Balkan countries in democracy and governance assessments

Evidence of convergence? The Western Balkan countries in democracy and governance assessments

Europeanisation in new member and candidate states

The Role of European Union Integration in Post-Communist Democratization in Bulgaria and Macedonia

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