Peter Burnell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1031694 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Burnell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Burnell |
| SIGNATURE | BURNELL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 378 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Resilience of Democracy: Persistent Practice, Durable Idea
The Resilience of Democracy: Persistent Practice, Durable Idea
Democratization Through the Looking-Glass
Democratization through the looking-glass
Democratization is a major political phenomenon of the age. This study argues that our perspectives on democratization reflect the intellectual origins of the inquiry. How we see and understand it are influenced by what we bring to the table. By considering democratization across a range of disciplines, from anthropology and economics, to sociology, law and area studies, this volume offers a rich combination of analytical frameworks, distinctive …
Politics in the Developing World
"An impressive line-up of international contributors provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to politics in the developing world. The first four parts explore the theoretical approaches, the changing nature and role of the state, and the major policy issues that confront all developing countries. The final parts set out a diverse range of country case studies, representing all the main geographical regions. These country case studies…
Funding Democratization
International support for action on climate change and democracy: Exploring complementarities
International support for democracy and climate action (mitigation; adaptation; addressing climate loss and restoring damage) are two distinct spheres: motivations, purposes, activities and the relevant literatures exist independently of one another. This article challenges this separation by investigating the scope for policy complementarities that potentially could further both democracy support’s objectives and climate action. Findings that ad…
In Memoriam: Peter Calvert
Peter Calvert joined Democratization as joint editor in 1996 (Volume 3) and in that role made a vital contribution up until the end of 2007 (Volume 14). My impression is that he would willingly hav
Democratisation in the Middle East and North Africa: Perspectives from democracy support
This article offers perspectives on the prospects for democratisation in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region in the light of political developments since 2010, with particular reference to international democracy support. An introduction shares certain assumptions about democracy support’s general record before threats and opportunities to democracy support arising from developments in the region are discussed. Next democracy support’s res…
Promoting Democracy
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Democracy, democratization and climate change: Complex Relationships
Relationships between democracy and more particularly democratization on the one side and climate change and responses to that on the other are underexplored in the two literatures on democratization and climate change. A complex web exists, characterised by interdependence and reciprocal effects. These must be plotted in as systematic and comprehensive a way as possible. Only then can we establish whether democratization really matters for clima…
Does Political Party Aid Compensate for the Limitations of International Elections Observation
International elections observation cannot make an election free and fair. In any case this would not guarantee well-institutionalised political parties and party competition or the consolidation of liberal democracy. Parties influence elections. Could international assistance to parties help compensate for the limitations of elections observation? The reality is that party aid has limitations of its own. Closer coordination of elections and part…
Promoting party politics in emerging democracies
This opening section briefly introduces international political party support, that is, assistance to political parties by international organizations, mostly from the US and Europe, to strengthen individual political parties, to promote peaceful interaction between parties and to help to create a more stable and democratic environment for political parties in new, struggling or flawed democracies. Before going on to introduce the contributions t…
Promoting democracy – promoting autocracy? International politics and national political regimes
Has the last tide of democratization been replaced by a new wave of democratic reversal? Do two decades of international democracy promotion now have to compete with the promotion of authoritarian rule by powers that have resisted democratization internally? Are there more pressing grounds than ever to investigate international political influences on the prospects not just for transition to and consolidation of democracy but the persistence, res…
New Challenges to Democratization
"This important text explores the widespread contention that new challenges and obstacles have arisen to democratization, assessing the claim that support for democratization around the world is facing a serious challenge. Bringing together leading international scholars of democratization, including Thomas Carothers, Michael McFaul, Laurence Whitehead, Bassma Kodmani, Nancy Bermeo, Marina Ottaway, Shaun Breslin and, Renske Doorenspleet, this boo…
Legislative Strengthening Meets Party Support in International Assistance: A Closer Relationship
Recent reports recommend that international efforts to help strengthen legislatures in emerging democracies should work more closely with support for building stronger political parties and competitive party systems. This article locates the recommendations within international assistance more generally and reviews the arguments. It explores problems that must be addressed if the recommendations are to be implemented effectively. The article argu…
From Evaluating Democracy Assistance to Appraising Democracy Promotion
Organisations involved in delivering international democracy assistance are engaging increasingly with questions about how to assess their activities. A double shift in the terms of reference, from the ex post evaluation of assistance projects or programmes to ex ante appraisal of the broader democracy promotion strategies, could make democracy promotion more effective. This does not mean abandoning the former; on the contrary its status would be…
International democracy promotion: A Role for Public Goods Theory
The state of international democracy promotion is in flux. After more than fifteen years of increasing activity and with more organisations and resources devoted to promoting democracy than ever before, a mood of uncertainty surrounds democracy support's current performance and future prospects. The last decade has also seen the emergence of a new literature on global public goods theory, offering fresh analytical perspectives on pressing issues …
Foreign Aid: Diplomacy, Development, Domestic Politics
Foreign Aid: Diplomacy, Development, Domestic Politics. By Carol Lancaster. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. 284p. $50.00 cloth, $20.00 paper. This book addresses an important issue—namely, why governments give aid—and offers a comparison of five countries since 1945: the United States, Japan, France, Germany, and Denmark. Each country occupies its own chapter, with systematic comparison being assisted by a common set of headings r…
Autocratic opening to democracy: Why legitimacy matters
As recent experiments in democratisation around the world show signs of achieving success, or failure, or more usually something in between, the attention of democracy promotion actors in the international community is turning to the world's remaining outstanding autocracies. This article identifies the autocracies, discusses the notion of autocratic opening, and explores how opening can come about, with particular reference to international inte…
Political Strategies of External Support for Democratization
Political strategies of external support to democratization are contrasted and critically examined in respect of the United States and European Union. The analysis begins by defining its terms of reference and addresses the question of what it means to have a strategy. The account briefly notes the goals lying behind democratization support and their relationship with the wider foreign policy process, before considering what a successful strategy…
Promoting democracy abroad
Contemporary scholarship is now well past the point where it was valid to say the international dimensions of democratization had been neglected. In fact there has been growing interest among acade
From low-conflict polity to democratic civil peace: Explaining Zambian exceptionalism
An absence of civil war and other significant sub-state violence makes Zambia an exceptional although not unique case in central-southern Africa.The literature devoted to explaining civil war has grown dramatically in recent years, but while it pays much attention to sub-Saharan Africa only rarely does it investigate counterfactual cases like Zambia.Similarly the growing field of research into postconflict reconstruction fails to capture the dist…
Civil Society in Democratization
This title brings together competing theories of civil society with critical studies of the role of civil society in diverse situations and the way in which it has been promoted as the key to democratization. The combination of contemporary theory and practical applications provides valuable reading for students of civil society and contemporary social and political change, and its policy implications for Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America
The Domestic Political Impact of Foreign Aid: Recalibrating the Research Agenda
Promoting democracy – promoting autocracy? International politics and national political regimes
Has the last tide of democratization been replaced by a new wave of democratic reversal? Do two decades of international democracy promotion now have to compete with the promotion of authoritarian rule by powers that have resisted democratization internally? Are there more pressing grounds than ever to investigate international political influences on the prospects not just for transition to and consolidation of democracy but the persistence, res…
Democracy, democratization and climate change: Complex Relationships
Relationships between democracy and more particularly democratization on the one side and climate change and responses to that on the other are underexplored in the two literatures on democratization and climate change. A complex web exists, characterised by interdependence and reciprocal effects. These must be plotted in as systematic and comprehensive a way as possible. Only then can we establish whether democratization really matters for clima…
Autocratic opening to democracy: Why legitimacy matters
As recent experiments in democratisation around the world show signs of achieving success, or failure, or more usually something in between, the attention of democracy promotion actors in the international community is turning to the world's remaining outstanding autocracies. This article identifies the autocracies, discusses the notion of autocratic opening, and explores how opening can come about, with particular reference to international inte…
The Party System and Party Politics in Zambia: Continuities Past, Present and Future
Journal Article The Party System and Party Politics in Zambia: Continuities Past, Present and Future Get access Peter Burnell Peter Burnell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 100, Issue 399, 1 April 2001, Pages 239–263, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/100.399.239 Published: 01 April 2001
The resilience of democracy: An introduction
1999). The resilience of democracy: An introduction. Democratization: Vol. 6, The Resilience of Democracy Persistent Practice, Durable Idea, pp. 1-32
From Evaluating Democracy Assistance to Appraising Democracy Promotion
Organisations involved in delivering international democracy assistance are engaging increasingly with questions about how to assess their activities. A double shift in the terms of reference, from the ex post evaluation of assistance projects or programmes to ex ante appraisal of the broader democracy promotion strategies, could make democracy promotion more effective. This does not mean abandoning the former; on the contrary its status would be…
Promoting party politics in emerging democracies
This opening section briefly introduces international political party support, that is, assistance to political parties by international organizations, mostly from the US and Europe, to strengthen individual political parties, to promote peaceful interaction between parties and to help to create a more stable and democratic environment for political parties in new, struggling or flawed democracies. Before going on to introduce the contributions t…
Financial Indiscipline in Zambia's Third Republic: The Role of Parliamentary Scrutiny
Contrary to the thesis that claims weak legislative power vis-à-vis the executive is essential if economic modernisation and development are to be driven forward in third world countries, Zambia's developmental interests would be served by making the powers of parliamentary oversight of the public finances more effective. The problematic of 'financial indiscipline' in the public sector is analysed in terms of a nest of principal-agent relationshi…
Political Strategies of External Support for Democratization
Political strategies of external support to democratization are contrasted and critically examined in respect of the United States and European Union. The analysis begins by defining its terms of reference and addresses the question of what it means to have a strategy. The account briefly notes the goals lying behind democratization support and their relationship with the wider foreign policy process, before considering what a successful strategy…
Good government and democratization: A sideways look at aid and political conditionality
Some aspects of the aid donors’ current interest in political conditionality are examined in the light of perspectives from the aid receiving world. The chances of implementing policies for good government successfully through the attachment of political conditions to aid will be served by: clarity of aims and objectives on the part of the donors; transparency of purpose and consistency in application; a strategic grasp of the political complexit…
Whither Zambia? The Zambian presidential and parliamentary elections of November 1996
International democracy promotion: A Role for Public Goods Theory
The state of international democracy promotion is in flux. After more than fifteen years of increasing activity and with more organisations and resources devoted to promoting democracy than ever before, a mood of uncertainty surrounds democracy support's current performance and future prospects. The last decade has also seen the emergence of a new literature on global public goods theory, offering fresh analytical perspectives on pressing issues …
Zambia's 2001 elections: The tyranny of small decisions, 'non-decisions' and 'not decisions
The course of the 1990s witnessed deterioration in the quality of elections held across sub-Saharan Africa. Zambia's elections for the presidency, parliament and local government held on 27 December 2001 are no exception. They returned the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) to power, but with much reduced popular support and leaving doubts about the legitimacy of the result. A 'tyranny of small decisions', 'non-decisions' and 'not decisions…
Parliamentary Committees in Zambia's Third Republic: Partial Reforms; Unfinished Agenda
This article critically examines the contribution of parliamentary committees in Zambia to democratic government. Several committees are of long-standing, including the Committee on Government Assurances and Committee on Delegated Legislation; others, notably committees involved in departmental oversight, were refashioned, expanded and given additional powers in 1999. They have worked hard to make government more open and accountable. Additional …
Building on the Past: Party Politics in Zambia's Third Republic
From the standpoint of recent and prospective political reform, the most promising cluster of countries in Africa is in the central and southern region. Zambia has been in the forefront. Zambia's reintroduction of multi-party politics, following the end of the Second Republic and its one-party state, brought about a new ruling party and a new president. The outlook for consolidating a multi-party system, and developing the political parties furth…
Promoting democracy abroad
Contemporary scholarship is now well past the point where it was valid to say the international dimensions of democratization had been neglected. In fact there has been growing interest among acade
Economic Nationalism in the Third World
Persuasion as a Political Concept
This article discusses the notion of ‘persuasion’ applied to a political method. It proceeds by comparing and contrasting ‘persuasion’ with concepts within the ‘power’ family. There are two sorts of justification for such an exploration of ‘persuasion’, the first positive and the second negative
From low-conflict polity to democratic civil peace: Explaining Zambian exceptionalism
An absence of civil war and other significant sub-state violence makes Zambia an exceptional although not unique case in central-southern Africa.The literature devoted to explaining civil war has grown dramatically in recent years, but while it pays much attention to sub-Saharan Africa only rarely does it investigate counterfactual cases like Zambia.Similarly the growing field of research into postconflict reconstruction fails to capture the dist…
The Domestic Political Impact of Foreign Aid: Recalibrating the Research Agenda
Legislative-Executive Relations in Zambia: Parliamentary Reform on the Agenda
The tripartite elections in Zambia, December 2001
Arrivals and departures: A preliminary classification of democratic failures and their explanation
Many instances of democratic disappointment are beginning to emerge in the wake of the high tide of the most recent ‘wave’ of democratisation. This article offers a categorisation, as a preliminary to investigating the reasons. A review of theoretical frameworks on democratic transition and consolidation reveals a rich choice of possible approaches to explaining the varied experiences summed up by the categories. A reversal of political liberalis…
The Changing Politics of Foreign Aid — Where to Next
The 1990s have seen the most systematic attempt yet to influence directly the government and politics of sovereign aid receiving states Aid's conditionalities now include political as well as economic dimensions The proclaimed objectives include democracy human rights and good governance. But the old politics linking aid to donors' security and commercial interests has not disappeared. The future directions are uncertain. Some observers urge addi…
Promoting Democracy
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Persuasion as a Political Concept
This article discusses the notion of ‘persuasion’ applied to a political method. It proceeds by comparing and contrasting ‘persuasion’ with concepts within the ‘power’ family. There are two sorts of justification for such an exploration of ‘persuasion’, the first positive and the second negative
Economic Nationalism in the Third World
Charity law and pressure politics in Britain: After the Oxfam inquiry
The Charity Commissioners’ report of inquiry into Oxfam in 1991 was heralded as having major significance for Britain's charities and their legal position with respect to political activity. The verdict was critical of the charity, and publicly threatened trustees with sanctions in the event of a recurrence of political abuse. However, the outcome cannot be claimed as an important victory for right-wing political forces in their campaign to end w…
The Problem of Service to Unjust Regimes in Augustine's City of God
Nonprofit Organizations in a Market Economy: Understanding New Roles, Issues, and Trends
Expert contributors offer insights from economics, history, and other disciplines to define the nonprofit's place and mission in a market economy--from soliciting contributions and recruiting volunteers to government regulation of nonprofit activity
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Political Participation and Democracy in Britain by Geraint Parry, George Moyser and Neil Day. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp.xviii + 510; index, bibliography, three appendices. £60 (hardback); £17.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 521 33298 2 and 33602 3 Work and Citizenship in the New Europe edited by Harry Coenen and Peter Leisink. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1993. Pp.254; index, bibliography. £38.50. ISBN 1 85278 739 2 Capitalist Developme…
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Freedom in the World: Political Rights and Civil Liberties 1991–1992 by Freedom House Survey Team. New York: Freedom House, 1992. Pp.570; tables; ratings. £58.50 (hardback); £22.50 (paperback). ISBN 0 932 088 75 9 and 74 0 The Middle East and Problems of Democracy by Heather Deagan. Buckingham and Philadelphia, PA: Open University Press, 1993. Pp.152; index; bibliography. £37.50 (hardback); £12.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 335 and 15686 X Nation‐buildi…
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Democracy and Decision: The Pure Theory of Electoral Preference by Geoffrey Brennan and Loren Lomasky. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp.x + 237; £30. ISBN 0 521 33040 8 Representation and Party Politics: A Comparative Perspective by B.D. Graham. Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell 1993. Pp.242 + table; £40 (hardback); £13.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 63117 395 1 and 0 63117 396 X The Market, Competition and Democracy: A Critique of…
Good government and democratization: A sideways look at aid and political conditionality
Some aspects of the aid donors’ current interest in political conditionality are examined in the light of perspectives from the aid receiving world. The chances of implementing policies for good government successfully through the attachment of political conditions to aid will be served by: clarity of aims and objectives on the part of the donors; transparency of purpose and consistency in application; a strategic grasp of the political complexit…
The politics of poverty and the poverty of politics in Zambia's Third Republic
(1995). The politics of poverty and the poverty of politics in Zambia's Third Republic. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 675-690
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Democratic Community (NOMOS XXXV) edited by John W. Chapman and Ian Shapiro. New York and London: University Press, 1993. Pp.xiv + 451; index. £38.50 (hardback). ISBN 0 8147 1497 8 European Politics Today: The Democratic Experience by Frank L. Wilson. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice‐Hall, 1994. Pp.x + 437; index. £36.50 (hardback). ISBN 013 292954 6 The Politics of Consensus: For the Resolution of Conflict and Reform of Majority Rule by P.J. Emers…
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The Politics of Decentralization: Revitalising Local Democracy by Danny Burns, Robin Hambleton and Paul Hoggett. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1994. Pp.283; bibliograpy; index. £35 (hardback); £11.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 333 52163 3 and 52164 1 Elections and Voting Behaviour in Britain by David Denver. Second Edition. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994. Pp.179; bibliography; index. £9.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 7450 1602 2 Democracy in Z…
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The Emergence of East Central European Parliaments: The First Steps edited by Attila Agh. Budapest: Hungarian Centre of Democracy Studies, 1994. Pp.306. NP. ISBN 963 7415 96 3 Nonviolent Struggle and the Revolution in East Germany by Roland Bleiker. Cambridge, MA: The Albert Einstein Institution, 1993. Pp.53. NP. ISBN 880813 07 6 The Russian Press from Brezhnev to Yeltsin: Behind the Paper Curtain by John Murray. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1994. Pp…
Building on the Past: Party Politics in Zambia's Third Republic
From the standpoint of recent and prospective political reform, the most promising cluster of countries in Africa is in the central and southern region. Zambia has been in the forefront. Zambia's reintroduction of multi-party politics, following the end of the Second Republic and its one-party state, brought about a new ruling party and a new president. The outlook for consolidating a multi-party system, and developing the political parties furth…
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Human Rights and the Making of Constitutions: Malawi, Kenya, Uganda edited by Joanna Lewis, Peggy Owens and Louise Pirouet. Cambridge: University of Cambridge, African Studies Centre, 1995. Pp.135. £4.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 90293 31 3 On the Shores of Politics by Jacques Rancière. Translated by Liz Heron. London: Verso, 1995, Pp.vii + 107. £34.95 (hardback); £12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 86091 467 4 and 637 5 Cultures in Conflict: Social Movements a…
The Changing Politics of Foreign Aid — Where to Next
The 1990s have seen the most systematic attempt yet to influence directly the government and politics of sovereign aid receiving states Aid's conditionalities now include political as well as economic dimensions The proclaimed objectives include democracy human rights and good governance. But the old politics linking aid to donors' security and commercial interests has not disappeared. The future directions are uncertain. Some observers urge addi…
Whither Zambia? The Zambian presidential and parliamentary elections of November 1996
Arrivals and departures: A preliminary classification of democratic failures and their explanation
Many instances of democratic disappointment are beginning to emerge in the wake of the high tide of the most recent ‘wave’ of democratisation. This article offers a categorisation, as a preliminary to investigating the reasons. A review of theoretical frameworks on democratic transition and consolidation reveals a rich choice of possible approaches to explaining the varied experiences summed up by the categories. A reversal of political liberalis…
Britain's new government, new White Paper, new aid? Eliminating world poverty: A challenge for the 21st century
The November 1997 White Paper (WP) Eliminating world poverty: a challenge for the 21st century is only the third ever substantive WP on Britain's aid policy. It offers a focus on poverty, emphasises partnerships for sustainable development and ranges over far wider issues than just aid. It makes some significant departures from previous White Papers by Labour governments, partly reflecting a changed Labour Party but also following an evolution th…
The resilience of democracy: An introduction
1999). The resilience of democracy: An introduction. Democratization: Vol. 6, The Resilience of Democracy Persistent Practice, Durable Idea, pp. 1-32
Democracy: Persistent practice or durable idea
The significance of the December 1998 local elections in Zambia and their aftermath
The December 1998 local elections in Zambia produced another convincing win for the ruling party, the MMD. The former ruling party, UNIP, came second, having boycotted previous elections. The significance of the elections is several‐fold. There is the fact they were held at all, given Zambia's political turbulence since 1996; the losers claimed that they were not free and fair; the outcome reconfirms MMD as the party to beat; and there are possib…
Does Economic Reform Promote Democratisation? Evidence from Zambia's Third Republic
Does Economic Reform Promote Democratisation? Evidence from Zambia's Third Republic
Financial Indiscipline in Zambia's Third Republic: The Role of Parliamentary Scrutiny
Contrary to the thesis that claims weak legislative power vis-à-vis the executive is essential if economic modernisation and development are to be driven forward in third world countries, Zambia's developmental interests would be served by making the powers of parliamentary oversight of the public finances more effective. The problematic of 'financial indiscipline' in the public sector is analysed in terms of a nest of principal-agent relationshi…
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