The Bumpy Road of Civil Society in the New Member States: From State Capture to the Renewal of Civil Society

This theoretical paper discusses the controversial development of civil society in the new member states (NMS) over a quarter century of systemic change and after 10 years of EU membership. In doing so, it attempts to elaborate a new conceptual framework for the decline of top-down democracy and the...

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Autor principal:	Ágh Attila
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Publicado:	Sciendo 2015
Materias:	decline of democracy formal and informal institutions state capture democracy-supporting civil organisations social activism participatory turn Political science J
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d2e6f62a6842489ebf4c5247ca244dd02021-12-02T15:27:45ZThe Bumpy Road of Civil Society in the New Member States: From State Capture to the Renewal of Civil Society1801-342210.1515/pce-2015-0007https://doaj.org/article/d2e6f62a6842489ebf4c5247ca244dd02015-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/pce-2015-0007https://doaj.org/toc/1801-3422This theoretical paper discusses the controversial development of civil society in the new member states (NMS) over a quarter century of systemic change and after 10 years of EU membership. In doing so, it attempts to elaborate a new conceptual framework for the decline of top-down democracy and the return to democratisation as a bottom-up process. This study of the bumpy course of NMS civil society analyses the gap between large formal legal institutions and small local informal ones and emphasises the need for participatory democracy if democracy in the NMS is to be sustainable. In fact, in this quarter century, two faces of informal institutions have emerged, reflecting the tension between genuine civil society organisations and large corrupt clientele networks. The mass emergence of these “negative” informal institutions has led to a situation of state capture and a democratic façade often analysed in the NMS academic literature. The study concludes that after the political and policy-learning processes of the last 25 years, there are now some signs of a participatory turn in the bottom-up process of NMS democratisation.Ágh AttilaSciendoarticledecline of democracyformal and informal institutionsstate capturedemocracy-supporting civil organisationssocial activismparticipatory turnPolitical scienceJCSENSKPolitics in Central Europe, Vol 11, Iss 2, Pp 7-21 (2015)
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description	This theoretical paper discusses the controversial development of civil society in the new member states (NMS) over a quarter century of systemic change and after 10 years of EU membership. In doing so, it attempts to elaborate a new conceptual framework for the decline of top-down democracy and the return to democratisation as a bottom-up process. This study of the bumpy course of NMS civil society analyses the gap between large formal legal institutions and small local informal ones and emphasises the need for participatory democracy if democracy in the NMS is to be sustainable. In fact, in this quarter century, two faces of informal institutions have emerged, reflecting the tension between genuine civil society organisations and large corrupt clientele networks. The mass emergence of these “negative” informal institutions has led to a situation of state capture and a democratic façade often analysed in the NMS academic literature. The study concludes that after the political and policy-learning processes of the last 25 years, there are now some signs of a participatory turn in the bottom-up process of NMS democratisation.
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title	The Bumpy Road of Civil Society in the New Member States: From State Capture to the Renewal of Civil Society
title_short	The Bumpy Road of Civil Society in the New Member States: From State Capture to the Renewal of Civil Society
title_full	The Bumpy Road of Civil Society in the New Member States: From State Capture to the Renewal of Civil Society
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The Bumpy Road of Civil Society in the New Member States: From State Capture to the Renewal of Civil Society

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