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Title:Whose Democratization? Periods of transition and voices from below in Turkey Author(s):ATAK, KivancDate:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; COSMOS; 2012/08Abstract:Turkey's experience with democracy, at least in its procedural terms, is one which has been discontinuous thanks to repeated military interruptions to civilian rule. Since 1946, Turkey has experienced coups on an almost ...
Title:Nationalism and Transitions: Mobilizing for democracy in Yugoslavia Author(s):RITTER, Daniel P.Date:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; COSMOS; 2012/03Abstract:The Yugoslav transition(s) to democracy is perhaps the most complex of all the Eastern European cases. It can be argued that Yugoslavia enjoyed the most favorable initial conditions of any country in the region: the regime ...
Title:Civil Society and the Paralyzed State: Mobilizing for democracy in East Germany Author(s):RITTER, Daniel P.Date:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; COSMOS; 2012/06Abstract:Among cases of transition to democracy from below, the East German one constitutes a particularly challenging puzzle. Whereas social movements taking advantage of an oppositional space within a repressive context have ...
Title:Civil Society and the Velvet Revolution: Mobilizing for democracy in Czechoslovakia Author(s):RITTER, Daniel P.Date:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; COSMOS; 2012/04Abstract:In the late 1980s Czechoslovakia was considered one of the most repressive countries in Eastern Europe and a staunch Soviet ally. In the aftermath of the 'Prague Spring' of 1968, repressed with Soviet help, the regime ...
Title:Mobilizing for Democracy: A research project Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella
Date:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; COSMOS; 2012/01Abstract:The project addresses the role of civil society organizations (CSOs) in democratization processes, bridging social science approaches to social movements and democracy. The project starts by revisiting the 'transitology' ...
Date:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; COSMOS; 2012/01Abstract:The project addresses the role of civil society organizations (CSOs) in democratization processes, bridging social science approaches to social movements and democracy. The project starts by revisiting the 'transitology' ...
Title:Tunisia: Surprise, change and continuity. Relating actors, structures and mobilization opportunities around the 14 January 2011 revolution Author(s):DONKER, Teije HiddeDate:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; COSMOS; 2012/12Abstract:The following report provides an in-depth and empirically focused overview of collective mobilization before, during and after the breakdown of the Tunisian authoritarian regime in 2010-11. It focuses on the relation between ...
Title:Reluctant Rulers and the Negotiated Transition: Mobilizing for democracy in Hungary Author(s):RITTER, Daniel P.Date:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; COSMOS; 2012/09Abstract:Among the Eastern European democratization processes of the 1989 period, Hungary stands out as the least dramatic transition in the region. Whereas other countries experienced massive demonstrations in favor of democratic ...
Title:The Unintended Consequence of the Struggle for Independence: The transition to democracy in the Baltic Countries Author(s):ROSSI, Federico MatíasDate:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; COSMOS; 2012/11Abstract:The Baltic countries' struggle was for independence more than any other thing. The achievement of democracy was a by-product of the secessionist project of increasing autonomy from Moscow. A possible explanation for this ...
Title:From the Coup to the Escalation of Violence: The transition to democracy in Romania Author(s):ROSSI, Federico MatíasDate:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; COSMOS; 2012/13Abstract:Romania was the only example of violent regime change in the central and south eastern European milieu, with massive mobilizations both in favour and against change and the execution of the dictator. In other words, there ...
Title:The Elite Coup: The transition to democracy in Bulgaria Author(s):ROSSI, Federico MatíasDate:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; COSMOS; 2012/10Abstract:The transition to democracy in Bulgaria is commonly defined as a coup d'état carried out by the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) elites against the long-standing dictator Todor Zhivkov. The Bulgarian transition to democracy ...