Democracy Promotion in the Eu's Neighbourhood

From Leverage to Governance?
Herausgeber: Lavenex, Sandra; Schimmelfennig, Frank

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Produktbeschreibung

EU external democracy promotion has traditionally been based on 'linkage', i.e. bottom-up support for democratic forces in third countries, and 'leverage', i.e. the top-down inducement of political elites towards democratic reforms through political conditionality. The advent of the European Neighbourhood Policy and new forms of association have introduced a new, third model of democracy promotion which rests in functional cooperation between administrations. This volume comparatively defines and assesses these three models of external democracy promotion in the EU's relations with its eastern and southern neighbours. It argues that while 'linkage' has hitherto failed to produce tangible outcomes, and the success of 'leverage' has basically been tied to an EU membership perspective, the 'governance' model of democracy promotion bears greater potential beyond the circle of candidate countries. This third approach, while not tackling the core institutions of the political system as such, but rather promoting transparency, accountability, and participation at the level of state administration, may turn out to remain the EU's most tangible form of democratic governance promotion in the future. This book was originally published as a special issue of Democratization.

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This book defines and examines the three principal strategies of EU democracy promotion in comparative analyses of Eastern European and Arab countries in its neighbourhood and thereby specifies the conditions under which EU democracy promotion is likely to be effective and how. This book was originally published as a special issue of Democratization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780415523110
• ISBN-10: 0415523117
• Artikelnr.: 35203849

Autorenporträt

Sandra Lavenex is Professor of International Politics at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland and is also Visiting Professor at the College of Europe. Frank Schimmelfennig is Professor of European Politics at ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. EU democracy promotion in the neighbourhood: from leverage to
governance? Sandra Lavenex and Frank Schimmelfennig 2. Political
Conditionality and European Union's cultivation of democracy in Turkey
Paul Kubicek 3. From Brussels with love: leverage, bemchmarking, and the
action plans with Jordan and Tunisia in the EU's democratization policy
Raffaella del Sarto and Tobias Schumacher 4. The EU's two-track approach to
democracy promotion: the case of Ukraine Tom Casier 5. The promotion of
participatory governance in the EU's external policies: compromised by
sectoral economic interests? Anne Wetzel 6. Transgovernmental networks as
catalysts for democratic change? EU functional cooperation with Arab
authoritarian regimes and socialization of involved state officials into
democratic governance Tina Freyburg 7. Democracy promotion through
functional cooperation? The case of the European Neighbourhood Policy Tina
Freyburg, Sandra Lavenex, Frank Schimmelfennig, Tatiana Skripka and Anne
Wetzel