Globalising democracy : party politics in emerging democracies / edited by Peter Burnell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burnell, Peter J.

Series:

Warwick studies in globalisation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

xii, 226 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Summary:

Globalising Democracy brings together expert contributors to explore the intersection of two major contemporary themes: globalisation, and the contribution that both domestic party politics, and international party aid, in particular, make to democratisation. This new volume clearly shows what globalisation 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, together with Turkey, which at first glance seem to tell a positive story, and of sub-Saharan Africa, where the problems and the challenges are more complex. The reader is clearly shown how international party assistance is one manifestation and vehicle of globalisation, understood in the political sense: as the global convergence of a distinctive set of (western-derived) political values and institutions takes place.

This book also shows how globalisation assessed in terms of global economic integration, the growth of global communications, and the development of multilevel (or polycentric) governance poses serious implications for party politics almost everywhere. Such themes are highly relevant to how new and emerging democracies can find a set of party politics fit for the purpose of improving and consolidating their respective systems. This book will be of great interest to all students of globalisation, governance, international relations and politics.

Contents:

Globalising party politics in emerging democracies / Peter Burnell

Political parties, international party assistance and globalisation / Peter Burnell

Political parties and the democratisation of globalisation / Jan Aart Scholte

Examining international political party aid / Thomas Carothers

East-central Europe : parties in crisis and the external and internal Europeanisation of the party systems / Attila Ágh

External assistance for political contenders in transition states : cautionary tales from the Balkans / Tom Gallagher

Globalisation and party transformation : Turkey's justice and development party in perspective / Ziya Öniş

Globalising party politics in Africa : the influence of global party-based democracy networks / M.A. Mohammed Salih

Party assistance and the crisis of democracy in southern Africa / Roger Southall

Hesitant bedfellows : the German Stiftungen and party aid in Africa / Gero Erdmann

Looking to the future : practice and research in party support / Peter Burnell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [210]-220 and index.

ISBN:

0415401844

0415401836

OCLC:

65400380

Publisher Number:

9780415401845

9780415401838