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In view of the limits that traditional democracy-promotion strategies face in the EU neighbourhood, we propose an alternative model that complements policies based on conditionality (‘leverage’) and civil society support and transnational exchange (‘linkage’). This ‘governance’ model relies on the EU’s policy objective of third countries’ legal approximation to the EU acquis and emphasizes the importance of democratic governance provisions embedded in EU sectoral legislation. Democratic governance promotion consists of EU activities to transfer such embedded democratic governance rules to non-EU countries via functional sectoral cooperation (Freyburg et al. 2009; 2011).
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© 2015 Tina Freyburg, Sandra Lavenex, Frank Schimmelfennig, Tatiana Skripka and Anne Wetzel
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Freyburg, T., Lavenex, S., Schimmelfennig, F., Skripka, T., Wetzel, A. (2015). Democratic Governance Promotion. In: Democracy Promotion by Functional Cooperation. Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137489357_4
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