The European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights: A Case Study of the Instrument's Conceptualisation of Democracy and Democratisaton
(2012) STVK12 20121Department of Political Science
- Abstract (Swedish)
- In recent years the idea and practice of democracy promotion has gained con-siderable attention and exists on every international organisation’s agenda. Due to the contestability of the concept of democracy, promoters are in front of a variety of instruments. The European Union is not an exception and in 2006 the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights was established as the concrete ex-pression of promoting democracy and human rights in developing countries. However, where one can categorise democracy promotion efforts according to the two main approaches to the field – the political and the developmental approach, building on a division of the conceptualisation of democracy – the EIDHR is sometimes criticised for being... (More)
- In recent years the idea and practice of democracy promotion has gained con-siderable attention and exists on every international organisation’s agenda. Due to the contestability of the concept of democracy, promoters are in front of a variety of instruments. The European Union is not an exception and in 2006 the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights was established as the concrete ex-pression of promoting democracy and human rights in developing countries. However, where one can categorise democracy promotion efforts according to the two main approaches to the field – the political and the developmental approach, building on a division of the conceptualisation of democracy – the EIDHR is sometimes criticised for being indirect in its methods. So in order to categorise the instrument, the paper applies an analytical framework consisting of three dimen-sions generated from the two approaches. Moreover, the paper applies an idea-tional analysis, aiming to scrutinise the rhetoric of the instrument. The findings suggest the instrument to rather be developmental than political. (Less)
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- author
- Brodd, Jessica LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- STVK12 20121
- year
- 2012
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- The Political Approach, EIDHR, Democracy Promotion, Democratisation, The Developmental Approach
- language
- English
- id
- 2972338
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- 2012-09-14 15:02:15
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- 2012-09-14 15:02:15
@misc{2972338, abstract = {{In recent years the idea and practice of democracy promotion has gained con-siderable attention and exists on every international organisation’s agenda. Due to the contestability of the concept of democracy, promoters are in front of a variety of instruments. The European Union is not an exception and in 2006 the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights was established as the concrete ex-pression of promoting democracy and human rights in developing countries. However, where one can categorise democracy promotion efforts according to the two main approaches to the field – the political and the developmental approach, building on a division of the conceptualisation of democracy – the EIDHR is sometimes criticised for being indirect in its methods. So in order to categorise the instrument, the paper applies an analytical framework consisting of three dimen-sions generated from the two approaches. Moreover, the paper applies an idea-tional analysis, aiming to scrutinise the rhetoric of the instrument. The findings suggest the instrument to rather be developmental than political.}}, author = {{Brodd, Jessica}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{The European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights: A Case Study of the Instrument's Conceptualisation of Democracy and Democratisaton}}, year = {{2012}}, }