Jan Zielonka (ed.)

Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe

Volume 1: Institutional Engineering
Herausgeber: Zielonka, Jan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume analyzes constraints on and opportunities of institutional engineering in Eastern Europe: to what extent and how elites in Eastern Europe have been able to shape, if not manipulate, the politics of democratic consolidation through institutional means.

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This book provides a unique insight into the institution building process and constitutional politics in new democracies of Eastern Europe. For the first time, an in-depth empirical analysis of thirteen individual post-communist countries is provided within a sound comparative and theoretical context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 508
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 764g
• ISBN-13: 9780199244089
• ISBN-10: 0199244081
• Artikelnr.: 26624033

Autorenporträt

Jan Zielonka, Professor of Political Science, Social and Political Sciences and the Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute

Inhaltsangabe

* PART I: INSTITUTIONAL ENGINEERING IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
* Institutional Engineering and Transition to Democracy
* Constitutions and Constitution-Building: A Comparative Perspective
Robert Elgie and Jan Zielonka
* Constitutional Design and Problems of Implementation in Southern and
Eastern Europe
* PART II: INSTITUTIONAL ENGINEERING IN A NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
* Estonia: Positive and Negative Institutional Engineering
* Rebuilding Democracy in Latvia: Overcoming a Dual Legacy
* Institutional Engineering in Lithuania: Stability through Compromise
* Bulgaria: The (Ir)Relevance of Postcommunist Constitutionalism
* Constitutionalism as a Vehicle for Democratic Consolidation in
Romania
* Ukraine: Tormented Constitution-Making
* Power Imbalance and Institutional Interests in Russian Constitutional
Engineering
* Constitutionalism in Belarus: A False Start
* The Czech Republic: From the Burden of the Old Federal Constitution
to the Constitutional Horse Trading Among Political Parties
* Slovakia: From the Ambiguous Constitution to the Dominance of
Informal Rules
* Slovenia: From Elite Consensus to Democratic Consolidation
* Hungary's Pliable Constitution
* Legitimacy: the Price of a Delayed Constitution in Poland
* Conclusions: On the Relevance of Institutions and the Centrality of
Constitutions in Postcommunist Transitions