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The External Dimension of Democratisation

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This chapter reviews the way in which the literature concerned with democratisation and the transition to democracy varied with regard to the relative importance assigned to domestic and external factors. It indicates that much of the scholarship considers democratisation being driven primarily by domestic factors and that the causal potential of international factors started to be engaged more systematically in the last two decades. This review is used to situate and introduce the research agenda of the book.

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    Freyburg et al. (2009) acknowledge that findings for their selected cases (Moldova, Morocco and Ukraine) might not hold across all ENP countries, especially in those which are less liberalised or less interested in intensifying their relations with the EU.

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Buscaneanu, S. (2016). The External Dimension of Democratisation. In: Regime Dynamics in EU's Eastern Neighbourhood. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56326-2_2

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