Democracy, State and Society. European Integration in Central and Eastern Europe

Katarzyna Zielińska, Magdalena Góra

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. Democracy, State and Society. European Integration in Central and Eastern Europe. Red. Zielińska, Katarzyna; Góra, Magdalena . Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2011, 321 s. ISBN 978-83-233-3208-4

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Central and Eastern Europe, Democracy, Transformations, Civil Society Organisations

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In the years after the breakthrough events of 1989, the concept of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) came to be widely used as a synonym for the group of ten countries from the former Eastern Bloc aspiring to EU mem...

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ISBN/ISSN:

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2011

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321

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List of contributors8
Magdalena Góra, Katarzyna Zielińska, Europeanisation in the EU New Member States. Aspects and Research Agendas 14
Part one: Democracy after Enlargement28
Christopher Lord, The Quality of Democracy30
Grzegorz Ekiert, Dilemmas of Europeanisation: Eastern and Central Europe after the EU Enlargement38
Darina Malová, Branislav Dolný, The Eastern Enlargement of the European Union: Challenges to Democracy?64
Nicole Gallina, Political Elite Behaviour in Eastern Central Europe: Provoking Populism and Nationalism?80
Jacques Rupnik, From Democracy Fatigue to Populist Backlash96
Part two: Identity Transformations106
Zdzisław Mach, The Identity of Europeans after the EU Enlargement108
Gerard Delanty, Peripheries and Borders in a Post-Western Europe114
Georges Mink, Between Reconciliation and the Reactivation of Past Conflicts in Europe: Rethinking Social Memory Paradigms128
André Liebich, How Different is the “New Europe”? Perspectives on States and Minorities148
Part three: Civil Society Organisations in Central and Eastern Europe170
Hans-Jörg Trenz, Bottom-up Europeanisation: Civil Society Involvement and EU Governance in the New Member States172
Ondřej Císař, Kateřina Vráblíková, The Europeanisation of Social Movements in the Czech Republic: the EU and Local Women’s Groups180
Imogen Sudbery, The European Union as Political Resource: NGOs as Change Agents?202
Kristian L. Nielsen, Eiki Berg, Gulnara Roll, Undiscovered Avenues? Estonian Civil Society Organisations as Agents of Europeanisation222
Part four: Europeanisation of International Relations240
Magdalena Góra, The Changing Nature of Foreign Policy and International Relations in Central and Eastern Europe242
Maria Mälksoo, From Existential Politics Towards Normal Politics? The Baltic States in the Enlarged Europe250
Nathaniel Copsey, Karolina Pomorska, Poland’s Power and Influence in the European Union: The Case of Ist Eastern Policy272
Martin Dangerfield, Visegrad Group Cooperation and “Europeanisation” of New EU Member States294

TheQualityofDemocracy

argumentsareﬁrstandforemostconcernedwithwhethertheUnion’sconditionsare

therightonesandwithwhetherithasanyrighttoinsistuponthematall.Letme

summarise,then,whateachofthefourchaptershastotellusaboutthestrengths,

weaknessesandunintendedconsequencesofdemocratisationunderthetutelageof

externallyassessedcriteria.

GrzegorzEkiertnotesthata"standardcritique”oftheEU’sattemptstopromote

democracyinCentralandEasternEuroperunsasfollows.TheEUhas"exportedits

democraticdeﬁcit”totheregion.Itsconditionalityhasrestrictedpoliticalchoices

anddebates.Ithasfavouredstatusquoelitesagainstpoliticalcompetition,excluding

somemorepopularactorswhohaverespondedbyturningthemselvesintopopulists.

Theoverallresulthasbeenamissedopportunitytocreate"fullylegitimateandpar-

ticipatorydemocraciesintheregion”.Yet,Ekiertargues,thestandardcritiquehas

been"poorlyspeciﬁedandinadequatelyinvestigated”.Inhisview,wecanonlyre-

allyidentifyshortcomingsthatcanbeattributedtotheUnion’sconditionalityifwe

ﬁrstidentifyproblemswhichwouldprobablyhaveexisted,quiteregardlessofany

democraticconditionalityadministeredbytheUnion.Hethensuggestsﬁvesuchdi-

lemmas.Letmehighlightthosedilemmashelinkstotheneedfornewmemberstates

toadoptamassiveacquiscommunautaire.Thismeansthatformanyyearsbefore,

duringandafteraccession,theproportionofnewpolicyandlawforwhichnational

democraticinstitutionscanmeaningfullybeheldaccountable–inthesensethatithas

beenfreelychosenbythoseinstitutions–islow.Indeed,theadoptionoftheacquis

ismainlyamatterofexecutionandadministration,notofchoice.Thusanytendency

forEuropeanintegrationtostrengthenexecutiveactorswithinmemberstatesatthe

expenseofpublics,parliaments,partiesandoppositionsislikelytobeespecially

acuteduringtheearlyphaseofUnionmembership.

WhilstEkiertfocusesonstructuraldilemmas,NicoleGallinaconcentratesmore

ontheroleofelitebehaviourinconstrainingwhattheUnion’sdemocraticcondi-

tionalityhasbeenabletoachieveinCentralandEasternEurope.Shedevelopsthe

ingeniousargumentthattheUnion’sdemocraticconditionalityprescribes"struc-

tures”whicharenotaltogethercompatiblewithlocalformsof"agency”.TheUnion

prescribesaconstitutionalistapproachtotheformaldesignofdemocraticinstitu-

tionswhichpresupposes"consensual”elites.Yet,inthecaseofCentralandEastern

Europe,someeliteshavebeenrivenanddrivenbyhistoricalconﬂicts.Othershave

easilybeentemptedbytheopportunitiesforpopulistmobilisationsofferedbycrises,

imperfectlyconsolidatedpartysystems,andtheenvelopmentofmainstreamelites

inanincreasinglymanagerialapproachtopolitics.Thusinstitutionswhichrequire

"cooperation”includeactors–andsometimeswholegovernments–whichbehavein

"confrontational”and"non-transparent”ways.

DarinaMalováandBranislavDolnýalsoaskwhethertheaccessionprocesshas

promotedorconstraineddemocracyinthenewmemberstates.TheyarguethattheEU

has"promotedinstitutionsstabilisingthehorizontaldivisionofpowers,ruleoflaw,

humanandminorityrightsprotection(...)howeverthetechnocraticaccessionlogic

neglectedthenormsandrulesofparticipatoryand/orpopulardemocracy”(PAGES).

TheUnion’sdemocraticconditionalityhasbeenunabletoensurethebuildingof

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