International Actors, Democratization and the Rule of Law

"This innovative volume advances our understanding of variations in the quality of democracy, and of the precise international pathways involved. These pathways are traced by deploying three linked concepts - democratic anchoring, layering, and cyclicality. The project's analytical eclecticism provides a model that can be extended and generalized and that will enrich the comparative democratization literature." Laurence Whitehead, Nuffield College, Oxford, UK. "An important study of how external actors influence democratic development, featuring a useful analytic taxonomy for understanding such influence, a telling focus on the rule of law, and well-grounded, absorbing country case studies." Thomas Carothers, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "This innovative volume advances our understanding of variations in the quality of democracy, and of the precise international pathways involved. These pathways are traced by deploying three linked concepts - democratic anchoring, layering, and cyclicality. The project's analytical eclecticism provides a model that can be extended and generalized and that will enrich the comparative democratization literature." Laurence Whitehead, Nuffield College, Oxford, UK. "An important study of how external actors influence democratic development, featuring a useful analytic taxonomy for understanding such influence, a telling focus on the rule of law, and well-grounded, absorbing country case studies." Thomas Carothers, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Amichai Magen is W. Glenn Campbell National Fellow, Hoover Institution, and Lecturer in Law, Stanford Law School, Stanford University, USA. Leonardo Morlino is Professor of Political Science at Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane at the University of Florence, Italy.

Preface Amichai Magen and Leonardo Morlino 1. Hybrid Regimes, the Rule of Law, and External Influence on Domestic Change Amichai Magen and Leonardo Morlino 2. Methods of Influence, Layers of Impact, Cycles of Change: A Framework for Analysis Leonardo Morlino and Amichai Magen 3. EU Democratic Rule of Law Promotion Elena Baracani 4. Romania: Vetoed Reforms, Skewed Results Ana Demsorean, Sorana Parvulescu and Bogdan Vetrici-Soimu 5. Turkey: Reforms for a Consolidated Democracy Senem Aydin Duzgit and Ali Carkoglu 6. Serbia: Democracy Borderline? Cristina Dallara 7. Ukraine: The Quest for Democratization between Europe and Russia Roman Petrov and Oleksander Serdyuk 8. Scope, Depth and Limits of External Influence - Conclusions Leonardo Morlino and Amichai Magen