This book provides an in-depth discussion and analysis of
democracy in Europe, with a focus on the new EU member states, and
makes an important and original contribution to the debate on the
future of European democracy.
Author Paul Blokker seeks to provide a critical
reconceptualization of the notion of democratic political culture
by developing a multiple democracies theoretical approach. He draws
on debates in democratization theory and normative political
theory, and presents a cultural-sociological approach for the
analysis of democratization and democratic regimes. This approach
emphasizes the historical and cultural embedment of democracy,
identifies a potential variety of ethics of democracy that underpin
democratic political cultures, and points to the significance of
democratic imagination in the interpretation and recombination of
such ethics.
The book explores the relevance of this approach by analysing
multiple political cultures and their role in the emergence of
democratic regimes in three new member states - Hungary, Poland,
and Romania - providing a detailed description and analysis of
political cultures by means of the analysis of constitutional
politics, constitutional texts, and political elite discourses, and
the identification of distinct politico-cultural elements that
distinguish these societies from each other.
It will be of interest to students and scholars of democracy,
European studies, post-communist studies, political theory and
comparative politics.
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