Lustration and Consolidation of Democracy and the Rule of Law in Central and Eastern Europe
Author: Vladimíra Dvořáková
Publisher: CPI/PSRC
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9537022188
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Vladimíra Dvořáková
Publisher: CPI/PSRC
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9537022188
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ramona Coman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-10-02
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 131737987X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The State of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe brings together scholars specialising in the study of Central and Eastern Europe, and provides a comprehensive analysis of some of the major issues in the democratic make-up of the EU’s new member states. The book covers the main dimensions of the state, and contributors discuss questions about the development of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe over the past twenty years. What is the present state of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe more than twenty years since the end of communist regimes? What is the actual functioning of the political institutions of these countries? How is political participation structured, and what role do political parties play in these democracies? What guarantees are provided to limit governmental powers and abuse? What is the role of the judicial system, and the relationship between justice and politics? How can we evaluate the EU’s influence regarding democratic consolidation? What is the role of the public opinion? This book was originally published as a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies.
Author: Wojciech Sadurski
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2006-07-30
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1402038429
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The accession of eight post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (and also of Malta and Cyprus) to the European Union in 2004 has been heralded as perhaps the most important development in the history of European integration so far. While the impact of the enlargement on the constitutional structures and practices of the EU has already generated a rich scholarly literature, the influence of the accession on constitutionalism, democracy, human rights and the rule of law among the new member states has been largely ignored. This book fills this gap, and addresses the question of the consequences of the "external force" of European enlargement upon the understanding and practice of democracy and the rule of law and among both the main legal-political actors and the general public in the new member-states. A number of leading legal scholars, sociologists and political scientists, both from Central and Eastern Europe and from outside, address these issues in a systematic and critical way. Taken together, these essays help answer a fundamental question: does the European Union have the potential of promoting and consolidate democracy and human rights?
Author: Jiří Přibáň
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
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Author: Professor of European Politics Jan Zielonka
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 0199241678
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first volume in a series of books on democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe. The series focuses on three major aspects of democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe: institutional engineering, transnational pressures and civil society. This first volume analyses constraints on and opportunities of institutional engineering in Eastern Europe: to what extent and how elites in Eastern Europe have been able to shape, if not manipulate, the politics of democraticconsolidation through institutional means.The aim is to contrast a set of democracy theories with empirical evidence accumulated in Eastern Europe over the last ten years. The volume tries to avoid complex debates about definitions, methods and the uses and misuses of comparative research. Instead it tries to establish what has really happened in the region, and which of the existing theories have proved helpful in explaining these developments.The volume starts with a presentation of conceptual and comparative frameworks, followed by in-depth empirical analyses of the thirteen individual countries undergoing democratic consolidation. The first conceptual and comparative part contains three chapters. The first chapter explains what institutional engineering is about and describes our experiences with institutional engineering in former transitions to democracy. It also focuses on the import and export of institutional designs. Thesecond chapter analyses the utility of constitutions in the process of democratic consolidation. The third chapter compares constitutional designs and problems of implementation in Southern and Eastern Europe. The empirical case studies deal with the following countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary and Poland. And the conclusions evaluate the enormous impact of institutions on politics in Eastern Europe and show how central constitutional designs are to the institutional engineering in the societies undergoing transitions to democracy.
Author: Jan Zielonka
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 569
ISBN-13: 0199241686
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This second volume in a series of books on democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe analyzes the external parameters of such a consolidation in thirteen Eastern European countries. It explores how different international actors and various economic, cultural, and security types of transnational pressures have shaped democratic politics in the region, especially over the last decade.
Author: Bogusia Puchalska
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781409419839
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book, Bogusia Puchalska develops an original theory of democratic constitutionalism and uses it to support the argument that constitution-making and lawmaking in constitutional moments should be politically, and not just constitutionally legitimate. This original and informative book should be read by all curious to understand how the democratic learning and the foundations of grass-root constitutionalism might have been damaged in post-communist countries.
Author: Martin Krygier
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-10-23
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1351540726
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is among the first books to consider post-communist Europe from the point of view of the rule of law. This book collects articles written by specialists on the rule of law in particular countries. Interdisciplinary in approach, this book reveals the multi-layered complexity of the development of the rule of law after communism.
Author: Peter M. E. Volten
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An international group of scholars reviews progress, including obstacles that have and have not yet been overcome, made by the three countries of East Central Europe in their transition from communism. The authors debate whether the changes are irreversible and how much more work is necessary.
Author: Adam Czarnota
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9789637326226
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This book is concerned to assess, and to draw some of the implications of, the legal developments of these last dozen or so years, specifically as they speak to issues of constitutionalism, dealing with the past, and the rule of law."--Introduction.