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Participation in Civil Society Organizations and Political Parties in Post-Communist Europe: The Impact of Political Divides

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Civil Society and Democracy Promotion

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As we can observe today, post-communist countries have followed diverse transition paths: some have consolidated as democracies, such as most of the Central European or the Baltic states. Others, however, cannot be considered fully consolidated: a good number of these states still show democratic deficits in several regards, particularly concerning the quality of democratic procedures. Finally, a number of states today are even showing tendencies of re-autocratization, such as Ukraine and Russia, but also Hungary or a number of the South-eastern European states.

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  1. Franziska Blomberg
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  1. European University Viadrina, Germany

    Timm Beichelt

  2. European University Viadrina, Germany

    Irene Hahn-Fuhr

  3. Center for Comparative and International Studies, Switzerland

    Frank Schimmelfennig

  4. European University Viadrina, Germany

    Susann Worschech

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Blomberg, F., Szöcsik, E. (2014). Participation in Civil Society Organizations and Political Parties in Post-Communist Europe: The Impact of Political Divides. In: Beichelt, T., Hahn-Fuhr, I., Schimmelfennig, F., Worschech, S. (eds) Civil Society and Democracy Promotion. Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291097_10

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