Tsveta Petrova
“Exporting Democracy: The Experience of Emerging Eastern European Donors”
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Abstract
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I propose to use two sets of qualitative interview-based comparisons to study a group of recent democratizers -- the Eastern European members of the EU -- as democracy promoters. My goal is to shed light on and to explain the variation in the democratization activities of Eastern European civic groups and government officials. To that end, I would like to conduct two sets of cross-country comparisons: one to control for the donor and another - for the target. To compare a single Eastern European member state promoting democracy in different target countries over time, I would look at Slovakia’s engagement in the Serbian electoral revolution of 2000 and in the Ukrainian electoral revolution of 2004. To compare Eastern European member states promoting democracy in the same target country at the same time, I would study Poland’s and Slovakia’s involvement in the Ukrainian electoral revolution of 2004. I expect to find that democracy promotion by recent democratizers is best understood as an export of the local experience with transition to democracy.
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