Experimenting With Democracy: Regime Change in the Balkans
Tom Gallagher · Geoffrey Pridham
Oct 2012 · Routledge
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The chronic instability in the Balkan States of South East Europe has prevented the end of the Cold War becoming an era of genuine peace in Europe. Against a background of competing nationalisms, economic decline, the resilience of authoritarianism, it is easy to forget that there have been experiments with democracy have taken place since 1990 with relative success. Now, for the first time, the region is genuinely engaging with open politics; its outcome will determine whether the Balkans can cease being a byword for instability, and an area whose shock-waves have disturbed the peace of Europe on many occasions.
Democratisation in the Balkans explores the obstacles impeding the consolidation of democracy, and even preventing a state like Serbia from going very far down the democratic road. Social scientists with expert knowledge of each of the Balkan states, and their political and economic systems, examine why progress in building free institutions has been slow compared to that of Central Europe, the Iberian peninsula and Latin America.
Democratisation in the Balkans explores the obstacles impeding the consolidation of democracy, and even preventing a state like Serbia from going very far down the democratic road. Social scientists with expert knowledge of each of the Balkan states, and their political and economic systems, examine why progress in building free institutions has been slow compared to that of Central Europe, the Iberian peninsula and Latin America.
About the author
Geoffrey Pridham is Professor of European Politics and Director of the Centre for Mediterranean Studies at the University of Bristol. He has written extensively on democratization; his publications include Stabilising Fragile Democracies: Comparing New Party Systems in Southern and Eastern Europe, and he was co-editor of Democratisation in Eastern Europe and Securing Democracy: Political Parties and Democratic Consolidation in Southern Europe, all published by Routledge.,
Tom Gallagher holds the Chair of European Peace and Conflict Studies at Bradford University; his books include Romania after Ceausescu: The Politics of Intolerance.
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