The Impact of International Factors and Domestic Politics towards the Process of Democratization in the Post-Soviet States: An Approach from Regional
Keywords:
democratization, European Union, semi-presidential systemAbstract
Using the connection of the domestic and international politics in fifteen countries of the post-Soviet states, this study intends to adopt case-studies to stress the functions of “international-domestic factors” during the democratic transition process. It is discovered in this study : countries that have adopted the integration with the European Union as their foreign policies have presented stable development in the pattern of “parliamentary cabinet system" or "premier- presidential system.” On the contrary, post-Soviet states that have adopted the integration with Russian have presented unstable development in the pattern of “presidential system” or “presidential-parliamentary system.”
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