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Democracy at Large

Part of the The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy Book Series

Editors: Petric, Boris

DOI: 10.1057/9781137032768

ISBN: 978-1-349-44124-2

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 11, 2015

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction Good Governance and Democracy Promotion: Empirical Perspectives on Transnational Powers

Petric, Boris; Blundo, Giorgio

Pages: 1 –23

[Democracy is the focus of a variety of discourses and serves as a reference for diverse political actors in a world that appears increasingly homogeneous at first glance. It inspired Ronald Reagan’s famous speech, delivered in the British House of Commons in 1982. The American president seized...
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Chapter 2Glocal Integrity: Good Governance Brokers and the Appropriation of Transnational Anticorruption Policies in Senegal

Blundo, Giorgio

Pages: 25 –48

[It will soon be 20 years since the African states started moving to the rhythm of good governance, the latest paradigm of development aid, popularized in 1992 by the World Bank2 and recently set up as a “fundamental truth” by the president of the United States, Barack Obama. In a speech...
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Chapter 3Electoral Observation and NGO Coalitions in Kyrgyzstan

Petric, Boris

Pages: 49 –74

[On March 23, 2005, the picture of a horse rider storming his way into the heart of the Kyrgyz presidency amid a raging crowd made its way round the world. This former Soviet republic suddenly became one of the major headlines on global media coverage during the popular insurrection labeled “the...
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Chapter 4Think Tanks: Actors in the Transition to Global Politics; A Bulgarian Case Study

Anguelova-Lavergne, Dostena

Pages: 75 –95

[After the fall of the Berlin Wall, offices of a new class of political actors, Bulgarian think tanks, appeared alongside the buildings of Soviet regime institutions at Sofia, rehabilitated to serve parliamentary democracy.]
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Chapter 5Participatory Decentralization in Bolivia: The Genealogy of an Institutional Transplant

Recondo, David

Pages: 97 –123

[ President Aliev was personally present during the opulent ceremony that marked his country’s admission to the Council of Europe. Traditional music, caviar, and national folklore accompanied the president for the much-awaited introduction to the heart of the “European family.” Since its creation...
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Chapter 6Participatory Decentralization in Bolivia: The Genealogy of an Institutional Transplant

Recondo, David

Pages: 125 –145

[Structural adjustment was particularly radical in Bolivia. From 1985 to 2000, governments of this country applied a veritable shock therapy, privatizing state firms and reforming public administration. As far as the latter was concerned, a process of decentralization was launched in a hitherto...
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Chapter 7Democracy Promotion, Local Participation, and Transnational Governmentality in Afghanistan

Monsutti, Alessandro

Pages: 147 –167

[Afghanistan—a country evoking images of poverty and mass migration, violence, and religious extremism to a Western audience—may seem a strange place to study the effects of democracy promotion. Yet Afghanistan is the destination of thousands of experts who conceive their endeavor within the...
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Chapter 8NGOs and the State: Clash or Class? Circulating Elites of “Good Governance” in Serbia

Vetta, Theodora

Pages: 169 –190

[In 1990, James N. Rosenau (1990), a leading figure of international relations studies, announced that we are now entering an epoch of worldwide turbulence. The fragmentary consequences of economic globalization and new technologies have come to undermine state authority and sovereignty over...
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Chapter 9Multiple Sovereignty and Transnationalism in a Nation-State: Aga Khan Development Network in Hunza, Pakistan

Hussain, Shafqat

Pages: 191 –204

[Democracy and development are normally associated with the experience and conditions of Western European modernity. As mentioned in the introduction to this volume, Western powers presented democracy and its promises to the newly decolonized third world, partly to dissuade them from joining the...
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Chapter 10Jakarta’s Spring: Democracy-Building Organizations and the Renaissance of Indonesian Multipartism

Bertrand, Romain

Pages: 205 –229

[On the morning of May 21, 1998, Suharto made a public declaration from the presidential palace renouncing the exercise of power and entrusting the country’s reins to his heir apparent and adoptive son, vice president Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie. This theatrical gesture signaled the inauguration of...

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