Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe: Volume 2: International and Transnational Factors (Hardcover)

This text is the second volume in a series of books on democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe. The first volume focused on the issue of institutional engineering. This second volume analyzes the external parameters of democratic consolidation in 13 Eastern European countries, exploring how different international actors and various economic, cultural and security types of transnational pressures have shaped democratic politics in the region. The aim is to contrast a set of democracy theories with empirical evidence accumulated in Eastern Europe over the last ten years of the 20th century. The volume tries to avoid complex debates about definitions, methods and the uses and misuses of comparative research. Instead it seeks to establish what has really happened in the region, and which of the existing theories are helpful in explaining these developments The volume is divided into two parts. The first part presents a conceptual and comparative frame of analysis, the second consists of detailed studies of individual countries undergoing democratic consolidation.