Democracy Promotion and Civil Society in Eastern Europe: Conclusions

This volume set out to explore a major puzzle of democratization. Why has the external support for civil society translated into highly unequal success — and sometimes outright failure — of democratization across the ex-communist countries of Eastern Europe? The chapters have made conceptual, theoretical, and empirical contributions to studying the link between democracy promotion and civil society. They have examined a variety of civil society actors, countries, and external democracy promoters. And they have identified problems of civil society support and development at various stages and levels. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.