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Designing Democracy

EU Enlargement and Regime Change in Post-Communist Europe

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  1. Geoffrey Pridham

    1. University of Bristol, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Theoretical Perspectives on European Enlargement and Democratisation

    • Geoffrey Pridham
    Pages 1-24

  3. The EU’s Conditionality Strategy: its Development before and after the Fall of Communism

    • Geoffrey Pridham
    Pages 25-62

  4. EU Enlargement, Democratisation and Domestic Politics in Post-Communist Europe: Patterns and Problems of Motivation

    • Geoffrey Pridham
    Pages 63-96

  5. Post-Communist Accession Governments: Policy Orientation, Institutional Adjustment and Implementing Democratic Conditionality

    • Geoffrey Pridham
    Pages 97-144

  6. The Political Arena and Intermediary Actors in Candidate Countries: Political Parties, Opinion-makers and Public Impacts

    • Geoffrey Pridham
    Pages 145-190

  7. The Socio-economic Arena and Deepening Democracy: Economic Transformation, Civil Society and Ethnic Minorities in Candidate Countries

    • Geoffrey Pridham
    Pages 191-218

  8. Conclusion: Europeanisation and Democratisation - Convergent, Parallel or Conflicting Processes?

    • Geoffrey Pridham
    Pages 219-229

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 230-284
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Designing Democracy is the first systematic and in-depth study of the effects of the EU's democratic conditionality, originally set out in the Copenhagen conditions of 1993, on the new political systems of Central and Eastern Europe. Using new material drawn from extensive elite interviews in several of these countries as well as in Brussels, the book throws much light on how far the EU enlargement process has really strengthened these new post-Communist democracies following their transitions in the 1990s.

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'The book is very well researched with extensive notes and source materials...[it] will be most useful for researchers in the area of democracy studies as it explores the recent enlargement in a comparative context and provides valuable insights into the new member states.' - Political Studies Review

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Bristol, UK

    Geoffrey Pridham

About the author

GEOFFREY PRIDHAM is Professor of European Politics at Bristol University, UK, and is formerly Director of the Centre for Mediterranean Studies there. He has worked for a long time in the field of democratisation studies in both Southern Europe and Central and Eastern Europe. Among many works published is The Dynamics of Democratization: A Comparative Approach (2000). He is continuing research on the EU and democratic conditionality with an ESRC Fellowship during 2004-7, with a programme of work on Europeanising Democratisation?: EU Accession and Post-Communist Politics in Slovakia, Latvia and Romania.

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