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dc.contributor.authorFREYBURG, Tina
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-08T12:11:33Z
dc.date.available2012-10-08T12:11:33Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationWorld Political Science Review, 2012, 8, 1, 1-45en
dc.identifier.issn1935-6226
dc.identifier.issn2194-6248
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/24116
dc.description.abstractIs functional cooperation with authoritarian regimes a blessing or a curse for democratization? Scholars predominantly view cooperation with authoritarian regimes as counterproductive in terms of democratization because it helps the incumbent government to remain in power by stabilizing the regime. This article presents evidence to suggest that functional cooperation can also be considered a promising way of yielding subtle processes of democratization that have hitherto been overlooked. It explores to what extent state officials become acquainted with democratic governance by participating in transgovernmental policy networks, notably the Twinning Program, set up by the European Union in order to implement functional cooperation with its Southern neighborhood. The study conducts regression analyses based on original survey data on Moroccan state officials’ attitudes toward democratic governance and complements these analyses with a qualitative comparison of different networks. The findings corroborate an optimistic reading of functional cooperation. By significantly shaping the attitudes toward democratic governance of involved state officials, cooperation appears to be able to plant seeds of change inside authoritarian regimes.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.titlePlanting the Seeds of Change Inside? Functional cooperation with authoritarian regimes and socialization into democratic governanceen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1515/1935-6226.1110


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