TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; CH 1: RESEARCHING PARTY ASSISTANCE; CH 2: PARTY ASSISTANCE AND NORM PROMOTION; CH 3: THE CONTEXT OF PARTY ASSISTANCE IN GEORGIA AND UKRAINE; CH 4: POLITICAL PARTY DEVELOPMENT IN GEORGIA AND UKRAINE; CH 5: POLITICAL PARTY ASSISTANCE IN GEORGIA AND UKRAINE; CH 6: THE FAILURE OF PARTY ASSISTANCE IN GEORGIA AND UKRAINE; CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS; NOTES; APPENDIX 1; APPENDIX 2; REFERENCES; ABSTRACT; SAMENVATTING
Summary
As part of a wider democracy promotion effort, political parties in Georgia and Ukraine, as in most other post-communist states, have received assistance from a number of non-governmental but governmentfunded western organizations for most of the post-communist period. This assistance, however, has persistently failed to contribute to making parties in the two former Soviet republics substantially more stable, democratic, and representative. In searching for an answer to why the assistance has not been more effective, this thesis looks both at the nature of the assistance and the particulariti
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doctoral Universiteit van Amsterdam 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-195)