Democracy and Media in Central and Eastern Europe 25 Years on
Democracy and Media in Central and Eastern Europe 25 Years on

Author: Bogusława Dobek-Ostrowska

Publisher: Studies in Communication and Politics

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783631654088

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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.

Framing Democracy
Framing Democracy

Author: John K. Glenn

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2003-08-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780804749282

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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?

Civil Society and Democracy Promotion
Civil Society and Democracy Promotion

Author: T. Beichelt

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-06

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1137291095

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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.

Civil Society in the Age of Monitory Democracy
Civil Society in the Age of Monitory Democracy

Author: Lars Trägårdh

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2013-05-01

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 0857457578

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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.

Funding Virtue
Funding Virtue

Author: Marina Ottaway

Publisher: Carnegie Endowment

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0870031783

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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.

Civil Society and Democratic Theory
Civil Society and Democratic Theory

Author: Gideon Baker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-08-27

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1134524064

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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?

Dissent and Opposition in Communist Eastern Europe
Dissent and Opposition in Communist Eastern Europe

Author: Detlef Pollack

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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.

Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe
Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe

Author: Grzegorz Ekiert

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-09-15

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9780521529853

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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.

Central and East European Politics
Central and East European Politics

Author: Sharon L. Wolchik

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0742567346

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"A useful text and reference book. These essays are at their best in serving both area study and political sociology."--Slavic Review --