External Democracy Promotion and Divided Civil Society â The Missing Link

Hahn-Fuhr, Irene; Worschech, Susann

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“…Such accounts emphasize the structural role of civil society as a sphere beyond the state and the market, which generates the normative context within which politics and economics operate (Alexander, ). Others examine civil society as an actor in itself whose participation in public life is crucial for the quality of democratic order either as a milieu where citizens meet, deliberate, find solutions to common problems and build trust among each other or as a check on government policies and a safeguard against unwarranted state intrusion in private life (for the distinction see Hahn‐Fuhr and Worschech, , pp. 16–22).…”

Section: Societal Empowerment As An Alternative To Elite Empowermentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Likewise, Beichelt et al . () have examined the pathways through which external actors can promote democracy via civil society, considering the various functions which civil society can perform (Hahn‐Fuhr and Worschech, ) and the stage of the democratization process at which a country finds itself (Beichelt and Merkel, ). While a comprehensive conceptual investigation of external donors' support for civil society has been undertaken, the existing literature is less explicit about the indirect ways through which the external environment can affect societal entrepreneurship and mobilization for democracy.…”

Section: Societal Empowerment As An Alternative To Elite Empowermentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Societal Empowerment and Europeanization: Revisiting the EU's Impact on Democratization

Noutcheva

2015

J of Common Market Studies

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The Europeanization literature predominantly credits the empowerment of pro-reform political elites through the EU's incentives for the democratization of non-EU countries. The existing studies under-emphasize the societal dimension of the EU's impact and the normative context in which the EU's leverage is applied. Taking a societal perspective, this article examines societal empowerment as an alternative to elite empowerment and proposes four mechanisms of EU influence on democratization through societies taking into account the EU's structural power and actorness, and considering their effects on the societal sphere and societal actions. Applying the mechanisms to a tough case for societal mobilization for democracy -Bulgaria -the article shows how the EU, through representing a legitimate model of democratic governance, has created a strong pro-reform societal constituency that can sustain the democratic dynamic. The article also demonstrates the relevance of cross-national diffusion processes for pro-democracy societal mobilization.

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Section: Societal Empowerment As An Alternative To Elite Empowermentmentioning

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Societal Empowerment and Europeanization: Revisiting the EU's Impact on Democratization

Noutcheva

2015

J of Common Market Studies

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“…Finally, reflecting NGOs’ dependence on international donors (Fagan, ; Hahn‐Fuhr and Worschesch, ), the availability of funding may shape their mobilization choices by acting as an additional incentive or constraint to implement certain projects.H3 Where targeted funding is available, NGOs are more likely to adopt an external mobilization format.…”

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Transnational Learning and Civil Society Empowerment in the EU Enlargement Process

Wunsch

2018

J of Common Market Studies

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Strengthening civil society as a domestic safeguard against the backsliding of reforms is a cornerstone of the EU enlargement process. Support provided by the EU, however, was shown to have had limited effects in triggering civil society empowerment in candidate countries. Adopting a novel perspective, this article demonstrates that the diffusion of mobilization formats, via transnational learning between activists from different enlargement rounds, facilitated the empowerment of non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) in countries joining later. Drawing on comparative evidence from Serbia and Montenegro, it shows how such transfers of external models enabled NGOs to feed into the ongoing membership talks. Their influence over substantive outcomes, however, was limited by a lack of domestic responsiveness, while funding availability constrained the operation of the transferred formats. These findings shed light on an overlooked dimension of learning in the context of Europeanization and feed into the debate on civil society empowerment in enlargement countries.

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“…Concerning the second requirement -Europeanization beyond dualism -the literature on unintended effects of Europeanization and its (external) promotion (see also Hahn-Fuhr & Worschech, 2014;Worschech, 2018) demonstrates not only the empirical plurality of Europeanization paths but also the innovation potential of divergence and non-conformity.…”

Section: Crisis Conflict and Europeanizationmentioning

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“…Until late 2013, most scholars stressed the growing competition among civil society groups which found themselves in https://doi.org/10.5771/2566-7742-2018-3-56, am 06.12.2021, 06:30:26 Open Access --http://www.nomos-elibrary.de/agb rivalry for funds and grants. Trust rated rather low among civic activist groups, but also between citizens and civil society organizations (Hahn-Fuhr & Worschech, 2014;Lutsevych, 2013;Palyvoda, 2014;Palyvoda & Golota, 2010). Surprisingly, when at Euromaidan the students' protests turned into mass protests as a result of the violent attempt to break up the protests on the 1 st of December, 2013, trust and solidarity between citizens and activists were quickly restored.…”

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The 'making' of Europe in the peripheries: Europeanization through conflicts and ambivalences

Worschech¹

2018

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In the social sciences, the idea of Europeanization as a pathway to an ever closer European Union and deepened integration is not uncontested, though it is still a popular concept. However, a paradigmatic turn towards a conflict-theoretical idea of Europeanization that is capable of taking into account the fuzziness and ambiguity of 'making Europe' is still wanting. In this article, I argue that Europeanization has never been unilinear and teleological but consists of ambivalences, turbulences, crises and simultaneous interlinked and contrary processes on transnational, national and subnational levels. Based on different theoretical strands of thought on social change, in particular Charles Tilly's political process model, I elaborate both this turn and a concept in three theoretical propositions that are based on one another and that constitute a systematically conflict-oriented concept of Europeanization. I illustrate the explanatory and analytical potential of the concept with an example that stands for ambivalent Europeanization processes beyond the EU's heartland: Ukraine. This view from the peripheries makes visible the need to analyze Europeanization as a multifold process involving inherent contradictions.

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External Democracy Promotion and Divided Civil Society â The Missing Link

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