1st Edition

Globalising Democracy Party Politics in Emerging Democracies

Edited By Peter Burnell Copyright 2006
    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    This volume brings together expert contributors to explore the intersection of two major contemporary themes: globalization, and the contribution that both domestic party politics and international party support make to democratization.

    Globalising Democracy clearly shows what globalization means for domestic and international efforts to build effective political parties and competitive party systems in new and emerging democracies. Contrasting perspectives are presented through fresh case studies of European post-communist countries, Africa and Turkey. The reader is clearly shown how international party assistance is a manifestation and vehicle of globalization, and explores how it may be assessed in terms of:

    • global economic integration
    • the growth of global communications
    • the development and implications for party politics of multi-level governance.

    This is the first book to analyze the impact of globalization on democracy and will be of great interest to all students of international relations, governance and politics.

    1.  Globalising Party Politics in Emerging Democracies  2.  Political Parties, International Party Assistance and Globalisation  3.  Political Parties and the Democritisation of Globalisation  4.  Examining International Party Political Aid  5.  East-Central Europe: Parties in Crisis and the External and Internal Europeanisation of the Party Systems  6. External Assistance for Political Contenders in Transition States: Cautionary Tales from the Balkans  7.  Globalisation and Party Transformation: Turkey's Justice and Development Party in perspective  8.  Globalising Party Politics in Africa: The Influence of Party-Based Democracy Networks  9.  Party assistance and the Crisis of Democracy in Southern Africa  10.  Hesitant Bedfellows: The German Stiftungen and Party Aid in Africa 11.  Looking to the future: Practice and Research in Party Support

    Biography

    Burnell, Peter