Embracing Democracy in the Western Balkans

From Postconflict Struggles toward European Integration

Lenard J Cohen author John R Lampe author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Published:9th Dec '11

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Embracing Democracy in the Western Balkans offers a comparative, cross-regional study of the politics and economics of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Albania from 1999 to the present. It was during this period that the first wave of post-communist regime transition ended and the region became more deeply involved in the challenges of democratic consolidation. Lenard J. Cohen and John R. Lampe explore the legacies of communist rule, the impact of incentives and impediments on reform, and the magnetic pull of European Union accession. The authors ask whether the Western Balkans are embracing democracy by creating functional, resilient institutions-governmental, administrative, journalistic, and economic-and fostering popular trust in the legitimacy of those institutions.

"This book presents new information which is the result of recent research. The scholarship is superior. The authors have addressed almost all of the relevant topics in a discussion of democratization and integration." (Nick Miller, Boise State University)"

ISBN: 9781421404332

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 34mm

Weight: 862g

560 pages