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Category: General
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January 2011 Taking to the Streets: Theory and Evidence on Protests under Authoritarianism
Beatriz Magaloni
Yair Livne
Ruth Kricheli
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2010 Georgia’s Rose Revolution: From Regime Weakness to Regime Collapse Cory Welt General
September 2009 Corruption and Compliance in the EU’s Post-Communist Members and Candidates Milada Vachudova General
April 2008 NATO - Ukraine Annual Target Plan for 2008 ·

The Annual Target plan evaluates the progress made over the last year and sets out the Alliance's and Ukraine's goals and tasks for the year 2008.

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March 2008 Implementation of the European Neighborhood Policy: Progress Report for Ukraine for 2007 ·

The ENP Progress Report surveys developments in Ukraine over the year 2007. It evaluates Ukraine's progress on political, economic, and social issues relating to Ukraine's relationship with the EU and sets out recommendations for the next year.

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March/April 2008 The Democratic Rollback: The Resurgence of the Predatory State Larry Diamond General
January 2008 Ukraine Annual Target Plan for 2008 NATO General
2006 Beyond Electoral Authoritarianism: The Spectrum of Non-Democratic Regimes Richard Snyder General
September 2005 Is the Age of Post-Soviet Electoral Revolutions Over? ·

Silitsky maintains that any talk about “democratic contagion” can now rest at a silent murmur. This very assertive article delineates the reasons for which the author claims the post-Soviet wave of revolutions is certainly over.

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March 2005 Democratic Promotion ·

March 8-11th 2005, The Club of Madrid held the International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security in response to the Madrid bombings. In the months leading up to the summit, more than two hundred of the world’s leading scholars and expert practitioners explored the issues of democracy and terrorism through a system of web-logs.

Ghia Nodia General
January 2005 Authoritarian State Building and the Sources of Regime Competitiveness in the Fourth Wave: The Cases of Belarus, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine ·

Way’s basic argument is that scholars have misconstrued some of the transitions that have occurred in the former Soviet Union as transitional democracies, whereas in fact they were or remain weak autocracies.

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January 2005 Government/Non-Profit Partnerships, Public Services Delivery, and Civil Society in the Transitional Nations of Eastern Europe: Lessons from the Hungarian Experience ·

This article explores the complexity of the relationship between government and non-profit organizations in the context of Hungary on the cusp of accession to the European Union.

Gyorgy Jenei
Gergeley Fabian
Kuti Eva
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January 2005 How Freedom is Won: From Civic Resistance to Durable Democracy ·

In studying what mechanisms most significantly impact the transitions from tyranny to democracy, it is important to note the history of successful, nonviolent “people power” revolutions.

Adrian Karatnycky
Peter Ackerman
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January 2005 Transitions from Postcommunism ·

McFaul argues that quick and successful democratic breakthroughs are the exception rather than the rule in postcommunsit states. Countries such as Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, and eastern Czechoslovakia did not rapidly consolidate liberal democracies after the fall of communism.

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January 2005 Regime Cycles: Democracy, Autocracy, and Revolution in Post-Soviet Russia Henry E Hale General
July 2004 The Seven Ingredients: When Democracy Promotion Works ·

From the sidelines of the Serbian and Georgian democratic victories, activists watched secretly and silently puzzled. What exactly did the Serbian and Georgian democracy activists get right? Sarah Mendelson offers a list of the seven ingredients needed to make democracy promotion work.

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June 2004 How the EU Should Help its Neighbours ·

Grabbe examines the Commission’s proposal for the European Neighborhood Policy and argues that the EU should give stronger incentives for its neighbors in order to increase the efficacy of its policies.

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January 2004 Corruption, Anticorruption Sentiments, and the Rule of Law General
January 2004 Arab, not Muslim, Exceptionalism
Alfred Stepan
Graeme Robertson
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May 2002 Comparative Development of Post-Communist Civil Societies ·

Green puts forth the results of his study of civil society in 20 post-communist states. This study is based upon an indicator of “best practice" guidelines that are used specifically to determine how successful the state has been in promoting various non-profit sectors.

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March 2002 The Position of Interest Groups in Eastern European Democracies: Maturing Servicemen or Trojan Horses? ·

Korkut examines the role of civil society in this article, based largely upon interviews conducted in Romania, Poland and Hungary. He concludes that it is not just the existence of a vibrant civil society, but more importantly the existence of democratic structure within interest groups of this society that lends itself to democratic transition.

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April 2001 Tutors and Pupils: International Organizations, Central European Elites and Western Models in Governance ·

The article seeks to answer the question of what happens when international actors aggressively promote institutional changes within the context of a massive shift in domestic structures. Wade studies how the EU and NATO act as “institutional tutors”.

Jacoby Wade General
Category: Preconditions for Democratic Consolidation
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March 2008 Exporting Civil Society: The Post-Communist Experience ·

Multilateral organizations, donor governments and international politicians have pushed the conception of civil society as a requisite for the political transformation of post-communist countries since the downfall of communism. Civil society is regarded as an answer to problems ranging from participation, accountability, good governance and good values to service delivery.

Preconditions for Democratic Consolidation
Category: Political Institutions
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2008 The Problem of Lasting Change: Civil Society and the Colored Revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine ·

Civil society played a vital role in the colored revolutions of Georgia and Ukraine, exemplified by the activism of the youth groups Kmara and Pora. As democratic reform has stalled, however, these groups have found themselves increasingly marginalized because of the reemergence of authoritarian practices and elites.

Political Institutions
Category: External Actors
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July 2006 Pigs, Wolves and the Evolution of Post-Soviet Competitive Authoritarianism, 1992-2005 ·

In understanding why some autocratic regimes have been more stable than others, this paper focuses on the strength of autocratic regime structures, rather than the role of opposition parties or other democratic forces.

Steven Levitsky External Actors