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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300494103321

Autore

Gjevori Elvin

Titolo

Democratisation and Institutional Reform in Albania / / by Elvin Gjevori

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-73071-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 pages)

Collana

New Perspectives on South-East Europe, , 2662-5857

Disciplina

949.6504

Soggetti

Europe—Politics and government

Democracy

Politics and war

European Politics

Military and Defence Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 An Overview of the Military and Judiciary in Albania -- Chapter 3 Mainstream Institutionalist Approaches -- Chapter 4 A New Account of Institutionalisation -- Chapter 5 Conceptualisation and Measurement -- Chapter 6 Newspaper Coverage and Parliamentary Debate of Judicial Reform -- Chapter 7 Newspaper Coverage of Military Reform -- Chapter 8 Parliamentary Debate of Military Reform -- Chapter 9 Conclusions and Implications.

Sommario/riassunto

Albania’s democratic transition – one of the longest and most arduous of post-communist Europe – has failed to produce consolidated institutions. Therefore, this book undertakes the first comprehensive review of Albania’s military and judicial reform – from 1992 to 2009 – to ascertain why military reform produced substantial institutionalisation and judicial reform did not. The author analyses the different outcomes by outlining how political elites constructed the interests that shaped their subsequent political actions. Overall, this book presents a novel theoretical account for institutionalisation in emerging democracies and sheds light on two of Albania’s most important democratisation reforms. The book will appeal to



practitioners working on institutionalisation reforms, institutionalist and democratisation researchers interested in post-authoritarian transitions, and area study scholars focusing on Albania and the Western Balkans.