Europe Undivided : Democracy, Leverage, and Integration After Communism.

Europe Undivided : Democracy, Leverage, and Integration After Communism.

Europe Undivided analyzes how an enlarging EU has facilitated a convergence toward liberal democracy among credible future members of the EU in Central and Eastern Europe. It reveals how variations in domestic competition put democratizing states on different political trajectories after 1989, and h...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Scholarship Online 2005.
Subjects:
European Union > Europe, Eastern.
European Union
Since 1989
European federation.
HISTORY > World.
European federation
Politics and government
Democratisering.
Europese Unie.
Uitbreidingen.
Europe > Politics and government > 1989-
Europe
Eastern Europe
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Table of Contents:
  • Political competition and the reform trajectories of post-communist states
  • Liberal and illiberal democracy after communism
  • The passive leverage of the European union
  • The impact of passive leverage: the EU and eastern Europe, 1989-94
  • The active leverage of the European union
  • The impact of active leverage I: making political systems more competitive, 1994-8
  • The impact of active leverage II: reforming the state and the economy, 1997-2004
  • The endgame of the negotiations and the future of an enlarged European union.

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