Experimenting With Democracy (eBook, ePUB)

Regime Change in the Balkans
Redaktion: Gallagher, Tom; Pridham, Geoffrey

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The chronic instability in the Balkan States of South East Europe has prevented the end of the Cold War becoming an era of genuine peace in Europe. Against a background of competing nationalisms, economic decline, the resilience of authoritarianism, it is easy to forget that there have been experiments with democracy have taken place since 1990 with relative success. Now, for the first time, the region is genuinely engaging with open politics; its outcome will determine whether the Balkans can cease being a byword for instability, and an area whose shock-waves have disturbed the peace of Europe on many occasions.
Democratisation in the Balkans explores the obstacles impeding the consolidation of democracy, and even preventing a state like Serbia from going very far down the democratic road. Social scientists with expert knowledge of each of the Balkan states, and their political and economic systems, examine why progress in building free institutions has been slow compared to that of Central Europe, the Iberian peninsula and Latin America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134662166
• Artikelnr.: 38455162

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Pridham is Professor of European Politics and Director of the Centre for Mediterranean Studies at the University of Bristol. He has written extensively on democratization; his publications include Stabilising Fragile Democracies: Comparing New Party Systems in Southern and Eastern Europe, and he was co-editor of Democratisation in Eastern Europe and Securing Democracy: Political Parties and Democratic Consolidation in Southern Europe, all published by Routledge., Tom Gallagher holds the Chair of European Peace and Conflict Studies at Bradford University; his books include Romania after Ceausescu: The Politics of Intolerance.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Democratization in the Balkan countries, Geoffrey Pridham
Chapter 2 Democratization in South-Eastern Europe, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, F. Stephen Larrabee
Chapter 3 Political culture and democratization in the Balkans, Stefano Bianchini
Chapter 4 Nationalism and Democracy in South-East Europe, Tom Gallagher
Chapter 5 The media and the search for democracy in the Balkans, Tom Gallagher
Chapter 6 Economic transformation and democratization in the Balkans, Will Bartlett
Chapter 7 Influencing regime change in the Balkans, Valentin Stan
Chapter 8 Light at the end of the tunnel, Aurelian Craiutu
Chapter 9 Bulgaria, Kyril Drezov
Chapter 10 Democratic despotism, Ivan Vejvoda
Chapter 11 Albania, James Pettifer
Chapter 12 Macedonia, Bogdan Szajkowski