C 2022

Moving towards EU membership and away from liberal democracy

STOJAROVÁ, Věra

Základní údaje

Originální název

Moving towards EU membership and away from liberal democracy

Vydání

London, Illiberal Politics in Southeast Europe : How Ruling Elites Undermine Democracy, od s. 214-228, 15 s. The Southeast Europe and Black Sea Series. 2022

Nakladatel

Routledge

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Obor

50601 Political science

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

elektronická verze "online"

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

ISBN

978-1-032-07689-8

Klíčová slova anglicky

Western Balkans; illiberal politics; stabilitocracy; EU membership; captured states

Štítky

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 22. 11. 2021 13:48, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Anotace

V originále

The chapter concludes the Special Issue, Illiberal Politics in Southeast Europe, on the retreat of liberal democracy in the region. It focuses on the central themes that link all the papers together: free and fair elections, media freedom, judicial independence, privileged access to public resources and the role of civil society. It seeks to disentangle the causes and consequences of illiberal politics in the region and explores the similarities in the illiberal practices and strategies incumbents use with the aim of staying in power indefinitely. The main argument is that democratic backsliding in Southeast Europe is deeply rooted in the unfinished transitions of the 1990s, which gave rise to new political and economic elites and that blending those two into one resulted in the dominance of the executive over the judiciary and legislature. These new elites became entrenched during the wars and conflicts that affected the region. The enabling factors were of societal origin - clientelist practices, corruption, nepotism and mistrust in politics accompanied by external factors - as well as international pull and push factors (from the EU and Russia) along with a domino effect of democratic backsliding in the region.
The chapter was originally published in a special issue of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.