Organizing democracy : how international organizations assist new democracies / Paul Poast, Johannes Urpelainen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Poast, Paul, author.

Urpelainen, Johannes, author.

Series:

Chicago series on international and domestic institutions.

Chicago series on international and domestic institutions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

BALTBAT-Project.

Democratization--International cooperation.

Democratization.

International agencies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In the past twenty-five years, a number of countries have made the transition to democracy. The support of international organizations is essential to success on this difficult path. Yet, despite extensive research into the relationship between democratic transitions and membership in international organizations, the mechanisms underlying the relationship remain unclear. With Organizing Democracy, Paul Poast and Johannes Urpelainen argue that leaders of transitional democracies often have to draw on the support of international organizations to provide the public goods and expertise needed to consolidate democratic rule. Looking at the Baltic states' accession to NATO, Poast and Urpelainen provide a compelling and statistically rigorous account of the sorts of support transitional democracies draw from international institutions. They also show that, in many cases, the leaders of new democracies must actually create new international organizations to better serve their needs, since they may not qualify for help from existing ones.

Contents:

Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part I. A Theory of Democratization and International Organizations

Chapter 2. From Democratization to International Organizations

Chapter 3. From International Organizations to Democratic Consolidation

Part II. Quantitative Evidence

Chapter 4. Quantitative Evidence on Forming versus Joining

Chapter 5. Quantitative Evidence on Democratic Consolidation and International Organizations

Part III. Qualitative Evidence

Chapter 6. The Baltic Experience

Chapter 7. Forming, Remodeling, and Reforming: Expanding the Evidence and Implications

Chapter 8. Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's website, viewed October 22, 2019).

ISBN:

9780226543512

022654351X

OCLC:

1028979562