TY - BOOK ID - 15322660 TI - Regime Dynamics in EU's Eastern Neighbourhood : EU Democracy Promotion, International Influences, and Domestic Contexts PY - 2016 SN - 1137563265 1349950874 1349560243 PB - New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Political science. KW - Comparative politics. KW - Democracy. KW - Europe KW - European Union. KW - Russia KW - Regionalism. KW - Political Science and International Relations. KW - European Politics. KW - European Union Politics. KW - Russian and Post-Soviet Politics. KW - Comparative Politics. KW - Politics and government. KW - Europe-Politics and government. KW - Russia-Politics and government. KW - Human geography KW - Nationalism KW - Interregionalism KW - Self-government KW - Political science KW - Equality KW - Representative government and representation KW - Republics KW - Comparative political systems KW - Comparative politics KW - Government, Comparative KW - Political systems, Comparative KW - Europe—Politics and government. KW - Russia—Politics and government. KW - Europe, Eastern. KW - AB (European Union) KW - Aontas Eorpach KW - Avropa İttifaqı KW - Avrupa Birliği KW - E.E. (European Union) KW - EE (European Union) KW - Eiropas Savienības KW - EL (European Union) KW - EU (European Union) KW - Euroopa Liit KW - Euroopan unioni KW - Európai Uni KW - Eurōpaikē Henōs KW - Europäische Union KW - Europeiska unionen KW - Europeiske union KW - Europese Unie KW - Europos Sajunga KW - Európska únia KW - Evropeĭski sŭi͡uz KW - Evropska unija KW - Evropské unie KW - Evrópusambandið KW - Evrosŭi͡uz KW - I͡Evropeĭsʹkyĭ soi͡uz KW - I͡Evrosoi͡uz KW - Ittiḥād al-Ūrūbb KW - Ittiḥādīyah-i Urūp KW - Liên minh Châu Âu KW - Sahabhāb ʻAȳrʺup KW - UE (European Union) KW - Uni Eropa KW - Unia Europejska KW - União Europeia KW - Unión Europea KW - Union européenne KW - Unione europea KW - Unjoni Ewropea KW - Yekîtiya Ewropay KW - E.U. KW - Europe, Eastern KW - East Europe KW - Európai Unió KW - Eurōpaikē Henōsē KW - Ittiḥād al-Ūrūbbī KW - Ittiḥādīyah-i Urūpā KW - Uniunea Europeană KW - Yekîtiya Ewropayê UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:15322660 AB - This book examines the effectiveness and consistency of EU democracy promotion in its Eastern neighbourhood between 1991 and 2014. It concludes that the EU’s democratization role in this region was, not surprisingly, weak within this time period. However, this weak role only took shape under four domestic and transnational conditions: (a) a higher cost-benefit balance of rule transfer, (b) a lower structural difficulty a given country would need to overcome on its way towards a democratic regime, (c) increased levels of authority distribution across branches of power, and (d) a higher extent of democratic diffusion resulting from regional interactions. In those countries where these domestic and transnational conditions were present, as in Moldova, Ukraine, and Georgia, the EU’s democratizing influence was in causal terms only the tip of the iceberg. Most variation in regime dynamics remains to be explained by domestic and transnational contexts. ER -