Democratization in Central and Eastern Europe

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Democratization in Central and Eastern Europe

edited by Mary Kaldor and Ivan Vejvoda

Continuum, 2002

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First published 1999 by Pinter

Includes bibliographical references and index

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In December 1995, the European Council in Madrid announced that Central and Eastern European countries would be eligible for EU membership, provided that they met certain political conditions. The Amsterdam summit in July 1997 acknowledged that the CEECs had made impressive steps towards democracy and invited five of them (Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia) to open negotiations for access to membership. This book is based on a study which brought together scholars from each of the potential member countries to develop a methodology for assessing the degree of democratization attained by the CEECs. They assess the degree of democratization achieved by the CEECs so far, making a distinction between formal (procedural) democracy and substantive democracy (democratic political culture), and concluding that although the CEECs more or less meet the criteria for formal democracy, they all exhibit weaknesses in substantive democracy. Following an introductory overview, chapters cover the democratization process in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Romania and Bulgaria. A concluding chapter looks forward to how the broader democratic Europe might evolve.

Table of Contents

  • Democratization in Central and East European countries - an overview, Mary Kaldor and Ivan Vejvoda
  • democratization in Estonia, Juri Ruus
  • democratization in Latvia, Andris Runcis
  • democratization in Lithuania, Kestutis K. Girnius
  • democracy in Poland, Marcin Krol
  • democracy in the Czech Republic, Zdenek Kavan and Martin Palous
  • the present state of democracy in Slovakia, Martin Butora
  • democracy in Hungary - 1990-97, Andras Bozoki
  • Slovenia - from Yugoslavia to the middle of nowhere?, Tonci Kuzmanic
  • Romania - from procedural democracy to European integration, Alina Mungiu Pippidi
  • democratization in Bulgaria -recent trends, Rumyana Kolarova
  • conclusion - towards a European democratic space, Mary Kaldor and Ivan Vejvoda.

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