Books in the Democratization Special Issues series

Focuses on the impact of religion on democratization in a number of countries.

The book subjects international support for political parties in new and emerging democracies to detailed critical and comparative analysis, drawing on original field research findings from several countries in Europe, Africa and elsewhere.This book was published as a special issue of Democratizations.

This book defines and examines the three principal strategies of EU democracy promotion in comparative analyses of Eastern European and Arab countries in its neighbourhood and thereby specifies the conditions under which EU democracy promotion is likely to be effective and how.This book was originally published as a special issue of Democratization.

Bringing together a leading group of international experts in the fields of politics, economics, sociology, journalism, anthropology and law, this book covers key themes that have a bearing on the quality and sustainability of democratic practices and relates them to policies in specific countries or regions.

The book focuses on the reaction of the Eurasia authoritarian regimes to the colour revolutions in the region and shows how autocratic rulers studied various democracy promotion techniques to combat regime change in their state. This book was published as a special issue of Democratization.

Does a ban on ethnic parties help to prevent ethnic conflict? And even if so, is such a ban democratic? This book examines the evidence from Africa, the continent that has the most extensive experience with ethnic party bans.This book was published as a special issue of Democratizations.