As part of a wider democracy promotion effort, political parties in Georgia and Ukraine, as in most other post-communist states, have received assistance from a number of non-governmental but governmentfunded western organizations for most of the post-communist period. This assistance, however, has persistently failed to contribute to making parties in the two former Soviet republics substantially more stable, democratic, and representative. In searching for an answer to why the assistance has not been more effective, this thesis looks both at the nature of the assistance and the particularities of party politics in Georgia and Ukraine. The thesis argues that, as a consequence of domestic constraints on party development, political parties in Georgia and Ukraine were essentially unsuitable as recipients of party assistance and that, therefore, party assistance was poorly positioned to make an impact.
- ISBN10 9048513073
- ISBN13 9789048513079
- Publish Date 3 June 2010
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country NL
- Imprint Vossiuspers UvA
- Format eBook
- Pages 202
- Language English
- URL http://aup.nl/index.php/catalogsearch/result/?q=9789056296315