The Democratic Transition of Post-Communist Europe

Petrovic, Milenko

doi:10.1057/9781137315359

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“…Although different countries adopted different solutions to various problems raised during the transition process while adopting the acquis and building relevant institutions, it is generally agreed that the alignment with eU policies has been a success, 27 although the state of democracy in some eCe states is not without its critics. 28 eCe transition experience is none the less seen as a reform model for countries in the eastern neighborhood to follow, especially with regard to meeting the acquis, whatever form their association with the eU will take. 29 The eCe states have strongly reaffirmed the importance of the transfer of transition experience as a central element in their international development policies, as evidenced by several policy papers and legal documents from the region.…”

Section: The Ece Member States and The Eastern Neighbourhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Szent‐Iványi

Wolczuk

2016

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures

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The accession of the east-Central european (eCe) countries carried a promise of enhancing and enriching the eU's eastern policy. The new member states had the strongest interests among eU member states to ensure that countries in the east are prosperous, stable, and democratic. Yet, the eU's eastern policy has been largely criticised for its ineffectiveness. So why have they not been able to address the shortcomings in the eU's eastern policies? The article argues that the eCe countries supported the way the eU's eastern policies were conceived and implemented because they saw it as a potent vehicle to promote their own transition experience not only in the region but also within the eU. We argue that the eCe states have experienced three types of challenges when promoting their transition experience. First, uploading to the eU level remained largely at a rhetorical level. Second, there are conceptual and practical difficulties in defining what constitutes transition experience and harnessing it, as well as coordinating its transfer between the eCe states. Finally, while using transition experience as the basis for their development assistance strategies, the eCe countries actually insufficiently conceptualised the "development" aspect in these policies. Being so driven by their own experience, they have not drawn the lessons from enlargement to use in a non-accession context, especially by incorporating the broader lessons with regard to development.

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Section: The Ece Member States and The Eastern Neighbourhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Lightfoot

Szent‐Iványi

Wolczuk

2016

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures

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“…Dividing the region into ECE (Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland) and the Balkans (the Yugoslav successor states, Bulgaria and Romania), Milenko Petrovic (2013) explains the different trajectories of these sub-regions through the characteristics of communist rule. He argues explicitly against accounts that trace the roots of contemporary differences in Eastern Europe to the interwar period or even further back.…”

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“…For Eastern Europe, Hale (2015) arrives at a conclusion similar to Petrovic (2013), noting how, despite their highly patronalistic societies, Bulgaria and Romania could develop into 'patronal democracies', thanks to their ties to the EU. In Latin America, the democratising linkage with the United States holds in check patronalistic tendencies.…”

Section: Eurasiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Microscope or Telescope? The Study of Democratisation across World Regions

Bogaards¹

2016

Political Studies Review

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This review article brings together six recent books on democratisation. They cover Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, East Central Europe and the Balkans, Eurasia, and East and South East Asia. The review asks what we can learn from reading about democratisation in different parts of the world. The aim is twofold: to identify regionally specific processes of democratisation and to explore cross-regional commonalities. When viewed in combination, these regional studies of democratisation reveal the limitations of area studies and the need for comparative area studies. Cheeseman N (2015) Democracy in Africa: Successes, Failures, and the Struggle for Political Reform.This review brings together six studies of democratisation published in the last 3 years by reputable academic publishers. The books are all written from a clear regional perspective and were selected as typical examples of theoretically informed area studies. They cover

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“…However, the EU's purported normative power was arguably built on an overestimation of the EU's power to affect normative change in third countries thanks to its ostensible success in facilitating democratic change in the ten erstwhile communist countries which acceded into the Union in 2004(Pridham, 2005. Comparatively, the EU's track record in countries which were not offered the carrot of membership has been less than stellar and at times grossly ineffective (Petrovic, 2013).…”

Section: The Eu's Rigid Normative Power Self-perceptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The EU’s Difficulty in Translating Interests into Effective Foreign Policy Action: A Look at the Ukraine Crisis

Smith

2014

Baltic Journal of European Studies

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The Democratic Transition of Post-Communist Europe

Cited by 22 publications

References 52 publications

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Microscope or Telescope? The Study of Democratisation across World Regions

The EU’s Difficulty in Translating Interests into Effective Foreign Policy Action: A Look at the Ukraine Crisis

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