Importing democracy from abroad: international assistance for civil society in Romania

Tatar, Marius Ioan

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dc.contributor.author	Tatar, Marius Ioan	de
dc.date.accessioned	2015-11-26T12:18:05Z
dc.date.available	2015-11-26T12:18:05Z
dc.date.issued	2006	de
dc.identifier.isbn	978-973-759-116-6	de
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/45456
dc.description.abstract	This study assesses the relation between foreign aid and the contribution of civil society to the consolidation of democracy in Romania. Drawing on questionnaire data as well as internal documents the study specifically looks at the impact of international assistance on the participation of advocacy groups in the governmental policymaking process. On the one hand, it is shown that international assistance enhances the capacity of NGOs to mobilize advocacy coalitions and this in turn increases the effectiveness of their participation in influencing policymaking. But on the other hand, democracy assistance programs have a rather paradoxical effect by impeding NGOs’ civic engagement with their domestic constituencies. Hence, international assistance has a mixed impact on the contribution of civil society to the consolidation of democracy: it fosters advocacy groups’ “link-up” to the governmental decision-makers while in the same time it hinders their “link-down” to ordinary people.	en
dc.description.tableofcontents	Table of Contents Preface ix Introduction 1 1. Consolidation of democracy, Civil society and International assistance: a theoretical framework 10 1.1 Democratization theory 10 1.2 The role of civil society in consolidating democracy 16 1.3 The debate: positive vs. negative impact of international assistance for civil society 23 1.4 Conclusion 31 2. The Emergence of civil society in post-communist Romania 33 2.1 The legacies of communism and the re-birth of civil society in post-communist Romania 33 2.2 The role of external assistance in developing civil society in Romania: An overview 42 2.3 Conclusion 49 3. The participation of civil society in policy-making processes 51 3.1 Confrontation and exclusion before 1996 52 3.2 Participation and co-optation between 1996-2000 55 3.3 Coalition-building and institutionalization after 2000 58 3.4 Conclusion 63 viii 4. The impact of international assistance on the Romanian advocacy NGOs: case studies 65 4.1 Case selection and methodology 65 4.2 Level of organization, membership and leadership 68 4.3 Sources of funding and assistance 72 4.4 Relationships with other groups 75 4.5 Advocacy methods and style 77 4.6 Conclusion 79 5. Liberalizing the access to public information in Romania: the role of Advocacy coalition 81 5.1 Why is free access to information important for democratic consolidation? 83 5.2 Phase one: designing and adopting the Freedom of Information Act 88 5.3 Phase two: implementing the Law on free access to public information 101 5.4 Conclusion 105 Conclusion 107 Appendix A – The Questionnaire 115 Appendix B - List of Interviewees 127 Appendix C - List of Donor Organizations in Romania 128 BIBLIOGRAPHY 131	de
dc.language	en	de
dc.publisher	Univ. of Oradea Press	de
dc.subject.ddc	Politikwissenschaft	de
dc.subject.ddc	Political science	en
dc.title	Importing democracy from abroad: international assistance for civil society in Romania	de
dc.description.review	begutachtet (peer reviewed)	de
dc.description.review	peer reviewed	en
dc.publisher.country	MISC
dc.publisher.city	Oradea	de
dc.subject.classoz	Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture	en
dc.subject.classoz	politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Rumänien	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Romania	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Demokratisierung	de
dc.subject.thesoz	democratization	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Demokratie	de
dc.subject.thesoz	democracy	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Förderung	de
dc.subject.thesoz	promotion	en
dc.subject.thesoz	internationale Hilfe	de
dc.subject.thesoz	international aid	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Zivilgesellschaft	de
dc.subject.thesoz	civil society	en
dc.subject.thesoz	politischer Einfluss	de
dc.subject.thesoz	political influence	en
dc.subject.thesoz	nichtstaatliche Organisation	de
dc.subject.thesoz	non-governmental organization	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Organisationsstruktur	de
dc.subject.thesoz	organizational structure	en
dc.subject.thesoz	politische Partizipation	de
dc.subject.thesoz	political participation	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Informationsfreiheit	de
dc.subject.thesoz	freedom of information	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Informationsrecht	de
dc.subject.thesoz	right to information	en
dc.subject.thesoz	postkommunistische Gesellschaft	de
dc.subject.thesoz	post-communist society	en
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-454561
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung	de
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works	en
ssoar.contributor.institution	University of Oradea	de
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dc.type.stock	monograph	de
dc.type.document	Monographie	de
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dc.source.pageinfo	XIV, 141	de
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