Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe (Oxford Studies in Democratization)

✍ Scribed by Jan Zielonka (editor)

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 506
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume--the first in a series of books on democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe--examines the constraints and opportunities of institutional engineering in Eastern Europe. The aim is to contrast a set of democracy theories with empirical evidence accumulated in Eastern Europe over the last ten years. Avoiding complex debates about definitions, methods, and the uses and misuses of comparative research, this book instead tries to establish what has really happened in the region and which of the existing theories have proved helpful in explaining these developments.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Part I. Institutional Engineering in a Comparative Perspective
1. Institutional Engineering and Transition to Democracy
2. Constitutions and Constitution-Building: A Comparative Perspective
3. Constitutional Design and Problems of Implementation in Southern and Eastern Europe
Part II. Institutional Engineering in a National Perspective
4. Estonia: Positive and Negative Institutional Engineering
5. Rebuilding Democracy in Latvia: Overcoming a Dual Legacy
6. Institutional Engineering in Lithuania: Stability through Compromise
7. Bulgaria: The (Ir)Relevance of Post-communist Constitutionalism
8. Constitutionalism as a Vehicle for Democratic Consolidation in Romania
9. Ukraine: Tormented Constitution-Making
10. Power Imbalance and Institutional Interests in Russian Constitutional Engineering
11. Constitutionalism in Belarus: A False Start
12. The Czech Republic: From the Burden of the Old Federal Constitution to the Constitutional Horse Trading among Political Parties
13. Slovakia: From the Ambiguous Constitution to the Dominance of Informal Rules
14. Slovenia: From Elite Consensus to Democratic Consolidation
15. Hungary's Pliable Constitution
16. Legitimacy: The Price of a Delayed Constitution in Poland
17. Conclusions: On the Relevance of Institutions and the Centrality of Constitutions in Post-communist Transitions
Selected Bibliography
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