Co-optation or Empowerment? The Fate of Pro-Democracy NGOs after the Rose Revolution

Brian Grodsky

Europe-Asia Studies, 2012, vol. 64, issue 9, 1684-1708

Abstract: Western governments spend millions of dollars annually supporting the non-governmental sphere, and especially pro-democracy organisations, in non-democracies. The essay explores how inclusion of pro-democracy organisations into the state after democratic breakthrough can enhance or inhibit democratic consolidation, arguing inclusion can actually weaken the NGO community by creating rifts between one-time partners with suddenly disparate agendas. This argument is applied to the case of Georgia following the 2003 ‘Rose Revolution’. Evidence is based on elite interviews conducted in summer 2007.

Date: 2012
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