Challenges to democracy building and the role of civil society

Bibliographic Data

ID6253392
AuthorsTina Mavrikos-Adamou (Colgate University, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume17
Issue3
Pages514-533
Publication date2010-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDemocratization (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1351-0347 • E-ISSN: 1743-890X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13510341003700386
OpenAlexW2066895138
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited18

This article addresses the issue of the challenges of democracy building and the role of civil society in this process by focusing on three countries in southeastern Europe, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Since the 1990s, when these three post-communist states undertook the democratization process, formidable challenges and obstacles to the democratization process have been encountered by all three states which facilitates a comparative analysis, while differences remain as well, especially since Bulgaria became a member of the European Union in 2007. The development of an indigenous civil society is perceived as both a necessary prerequisite for a qualitative democracy to develop and be maintained in these societies, and as a project under construction that needs to be culturally contextualized to be relevant to the population it purports to serve

Civil society · Communism · Democracy · Democratization · Development economics · European union · Indigenous · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Public Administration · Turkey's Politics and Society

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