Author : Bogusława Dobek-Ostrowska
Publisher : Studies in Communication and Politics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9783631654088
This book is a collection of essays about democracy and relations between media and politics in Central and Eastern Europe, a topic which has been much discussed in a variety of publications and during international and national conferences. The papers analyze the models of media systems, journalistic autonomy and the state of media freedom.
Author : John K. Glenn
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,85 MB
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804749282
In 1989, newly formed civic movements replaced long-standing Leninist regimes in Eastern Europe with democratic governments. This book addresses such questions as: how similar were the Leninist regimes before their dissolution, how similar were their demises and ultimate outcome? How did the way communism fell affect the founding of democracies in Eastern Europe, notably in Poland and Czechoslovakia?
Author : T. Beichelt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,12 MB
Release : 2016-01-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137291095
With contributions from experts on democracy promotion, this volume examines civil society development and external civil society promotion in post-socialist Europe. It focuses on countries with a failed or deficient process of democratic consolidation looking at unintended consequences of external democracy promotion on civil society development.
Author : Lars Trägårdh
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 14,61 MB
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0857457578
Since the emergence of the dissident “parallel polis” in Eastern Europe, civil society has become a “new superpower,” influencing democratic transformations, human rights, and international co-operation; co-designing economic trends, security and defense; reshaping the information society; and generating new ideas on the environment, health, and the “good life.” This volume seeks to compare and reassess the role of civil society in the rich West, the poorer South, and the quickly expanding East in the context of the twenty-first century’s challenges. It presents a novel perspective on civic movements testing John Keane’s notion of “monitory democracy”: an emerging order of public scrutiny and monitoring of power.
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Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 19,21 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 1134076762
Author : Marina Ottaway
Publisher : Carnegie Endowment
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 30,4 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0870031783
The United States and many other international donors have embraced civil-society aid as a key tool of democracy promotion. This collection of essays analyzes civil-society aid in five regions - South Africa, the Philippines, Peru, Egypt and Romania - focusing on crucial issues and dilemmas.
Author : Detlef Pollack
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 19,57 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
This volume provides new material on the different developments of opposition groups and dissidence in various Communist countries in Eastern and Central Europe. It significantly contributes to and further develops sociological and historical insights into the development of protest and dissent within this region.
Author : Gideon Baker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 13,95 MB
Release : 2003-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134524064
This book introduces radically alternative models of civil society that have been developed outside the liberal democratic frame of reference, models which suggest that civil society does offer new and non-statist democratic possibilities. Drawing on a wide range of civil society theory-practice from Eastern Europe and Latin America (including the Zapatistas in Mexico), and from visions of global civil society too, this book is uniquely positioned to consider the questions posed by these alternative voices for democratic theory and practice. * Are there alternatives to the liberal democratic vision of civil society? * Is a democracy located in civil society rather than the state either possible or desirable? * How and why has the concept of civil society come to be used so widely today? * Can global civil society further the struggle for democracy initiated by national civil societies?
Author : Grzegorz Ekiert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 2003-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521529853
This volume presents a shared effort to apply a general historical-institutionalist approach to the problem of assessing institutional change in the wake of communism's collapse in Europe. It brings together a number of leading senior and junior scholars with outstanding reputations as specialists in postcommunism and comparative politics to address central theoretical and empirical issues involved in the study of postcommunism. The authors address such questions as how historical 'legacies' of the communist regime be defined, how their impact can be measured in methodologically rigorous ways, and how the effects of temporal and spatial context can be taken into account in empirical research on the region. Taken as a whole, the volume makes an important contribution to the growing literature by utilizing the comparative historical method to study key problems of world politics.
Author : Sharon L. Wolchik
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 42,89 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0742567346
"A useful text and reference book. These essays are at their best in serving both area study and political sociology."--Slavic Review --
