2022
Moving towards EU membership and away from liberal democracy
STOJAROVÁ, VěraZákladní údaje
Originální název
Moving towards EU membership and away from liberal democracy
Autoři
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.
The chapter was originally published in a special issue of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.