TY - CHAP

T1 - From consolidation to negotiation

T2 - 7th Asia-Europe Roundtable on Conflict Management - AER 2010

AU - Müller-Rommel, Ferdinand

N1 - Conference code: 7

PY - 2006

Y1 - 2006

N2 - This article introduces three major approaches in the analysis of contemporary democracies and relates them to the government capacity to implement policy reforms. This newly developed framework for analysis is then applied to 10 countries in Central Eastern Europe ... We find empirical evidence that all 10 countries have reached a stage of democratic consolidation among the major political institutions. Yet the capacity of each country to implement policy reforms varies considerably. While Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Lithuania performed the best "framework conditions" for introducing policy reform, we find hardly any indicators for a strong implementation of policy reforms in Latvia, Romania, and Slovakia ...

AB - This article introduces three major approaches in the analysis of contemporary democracies and relates them to the government capacity to implement policy reforms. This newly developed framework for analysis is then applied to 10 countries in Central Eastern Europe ... We find empirical evidence that all 10 countries have reached a stage of democratic consolidation among the major political institutions. Yet the capacity of each country to implement policy reforms varies considerably. While Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Lithuania performed the best "framework conditions" for introducing policy reform, we find hardly any indicators for a strong implementation of policy reforms in Latvia, Romania, and Slovakia ...

KW - Politics

KW - Osteuropa

KW - Demokratisierung

KW - Polizeiorganisation

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

SN - 978-981-210-325-3

SN - 981-210-325-2

SP - 151

EP - 166

BT - Democracy in Asia, Europe, and the world

A2 - Chung-Si, Ahn

A2 - Fort, Bertrand

PB - Marshall Cavendish Academic

Y2 - 20 May 2010 through 21 May 2010

ER -