CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Gathing, Vincent |
|---|---|
| Title | Blueprint For Democratic Consolidation And Reinforcement: A House Built Upon Rock |
| Summary | The product of this research and analysis is a blueprint for transitional countries moving toward democratic and free market systems. Using comparative case-study analysis, the Blueprint provided here aims to identify primary and secondary features of a transition roadmap which can aid each country through the transition process. Ideally, the results will prove applicable for all developing democracies, most specifically with post-Communist transitional states in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The Blueprint is designed to facilitate two objectives: to consolidate and entrench the democratic system and rule of law in nascent democracies, and to deter and reverse illiberal regressions and democratic backsliding in democracies of various levels of development. It includes the common and primary cornerstones of democratic projects: judiciary independence, powers separation, and democracy maximization. The Blueprint also offers secondary features that address possible transition obstacles. These secondary features include specific civil society bodies, and policies designed to address the domestic and foreign actors that commonly emerge and disrupt post-Communist transitions. The cohort of comparative analysis consists of four case-study countries that have emerged from the Communist Bloc, with each country analyzed along the lines of the Blueprint features. Each country represents one of the primary transitional regions of the continent which has transitioned away from command-economy Communism: Serbia, Ukraine, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan. In addition, the United States’ recent backsliding period and brush with populist illiberalism is also briefly analyzed in comparison. The Blueprint and analysis conclude with a comparative summary and forward-leaning prospectus of the overall democratic project, and whether the Blueprint can serve its purpose for the entrenchment and development of consolidated and unconsolidated democracies alike. |
| Supervisor | Böckenförde, Markus |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/gathing_vincent.pdf |
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