International Actors and Democratization: US Assistance to New Political Parties in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

J.K. Glenn

Working Papers from European Institute - Political and Social Sciences

Abstract: What happens to revolutionary movements when they assume power? While the literature in political science and sociology has traditionally argued that new parties will reflect societal cleavages within nation states, recent analyses have challenged the assumption that new political parties will reproduce the patterns of earlier parliamentary democracies and observed the increasing influence of international and transnational actors. In this paper, I argue that new political parties may emerge around political rather than economic cleavages in conditions of rapid change, while assistance to political parties may create a dual relationship whereby international organizational forms and issue areas lackig historical precendent are adopted, but adapted to mobilize public support.

Keywords: REVOLUTION; DEMOCRATIZATION; INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 1999
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fth:europs:99/7

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from European Institute - Political and Social Sciences EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE, ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT, BADIA FIESOLANA, SAN DOMENICO (FI), ITALY.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Thomas Krichel ().