International actors and democracy promotion in central and eastern Europe: the integration model and its limits

Димитрова, Антоанета; Pridham, Geoffrey

doi:10.1080/13510340412331304606

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“…Slovakia under Meciar, Croatia under Tudjman, or Serbia under Milosevic) was negligible (see also Dimitrova and Pridham 2004;Kubicek 2003a;Pridham 2002;Rybář and Malová 2004;Schimmelfennig et al 2003). For such governments, the domestic political power costs of meeting the EU's demands were prohibitive.…”

Section: Liberal Democratic Principlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Europeanisation in new member and candidate states

Sedelmeier¹

2011

Living Rev. Euro. Gov.

150

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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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Section: Liberal Democratic Principlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Europeanisation in new member and candidate states

Sedelmeier¹

2011

Living Rev. Euro. Gov.

150

121

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“…The scholarly mainstream democracy and civil society literature (Zielonka & Pravda 2001;Mendelson & Glenn 2012;Carmin 2010;Wedel 2015;Dimitrova & Pridham 2004) contains very little about foreign funded NGOs and limitations to their operations in postSoviet Eastern Europe, like that set of new laws and amendments recently adopted in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. This paper fills that void by describing the new laws and restrictive legislative acts adopted since 2011 in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine and discusses the effects such laws have on the operations of the NGO sector and broader democratization processes in these three post-communist countries.…”

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confidence: 99%

Foreign Funded NGOs in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine: Recent Restrictions and Implications

Oleinikova

2017

CCS Journal

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The opportunity for public participation through NGO action in post-communist societies is continuously starved by legal framework. Since the collapse of Soviet Union, NGOs in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other post-Communist states have traditionally looked abroad for their funding, and are dismayed at recent legislation setting up new barriers to this practice. This paper discusses the new laws and restrictive amendments to legislative acts on the operations of foreign funded NGOs in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, adopted since 2011.

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“… Regional dependence on federal fiscal transfers, as measured by the share of federal transfers in regional expenditures in 2000-2004. Gervasoni (2010 has shown how federal transfers might have detrimental effects on sub-national democracy.…”

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Authoritarian and Democratic Diffusion in Post-Communist Regions

Lankina

Libman

Obydenkova

2016

Comparative Political Studies

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There is a rich body of theorizing on the diffusion of democracy across space and time. There is also an emerging scholarship on authoritarian diffusion. The dynamics of the interaction between external democratic and autocratic diffusion processes and their effects on national and sub-national political regime outcomes have received scant attention in the literature. Do democratic diffusion processes help counter external authoritarian influences? And, in contexts where external diffusion of democratic influences is weak, do we observe greater susceptibility to diffusion from regional autocracies that might in turn reinforce authoritarian practices and institutions in "recipient" states? To address these questions, we perform analysis of data from two original under-utilized datasets-a dataset on EU aid to Russia's regions; and a dataset with statistics on trade among post-Soviet states. We find that EU aid has the effect of countering external authoritarian influences that work through Soviet-era inter-regional economic ties.

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International actors and democracy promotion in central and eastern Europe: the integration model and its limits

Cited by 103 publications

References 8 publications

Europeanisation in new member and candidate states

Europeanisation in new member and candidate states

Foreign Funded NGOs in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine: Recent Restrictions and Implications

Authoritarian and Democratic Diffusion in Post-Communist Regions

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