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- Title
Fruchtbarer Boden oder doch nur Wüste? Eine Replik auf Tina Freyburg.
- Authors
Bräuninger, Thomas
- Abstract
In her contribution »Planting the Seeds of Change Inside?« (ZIB 18: 1, 5-46), Tina Freyburg argues that some forms of functional cooperation of democratic and authoritarian regimes can trigger subtle processes of democratization in the latter. One example is the change of attitudes of officials towards key principles of democratic governance once these officials have participated in transgovernmental cooperation networks under the framework of the European Union's Twinning program. The results of an analysis of survey data of officials is interpreted as evidence for the hypothesis. In this reply I discuss some of the methodological problems that come along with identifying and establishing causal mechanisms when dealing with quasi-experimental and observational data in general and Freyburg's study in particular.
- Subjects
MOROCCO; DEMOCRATIZATION; INTERNATIONAL cooperation on democratization; NEW democracies; MANAGEMENT of government agencies; GOVERNMENT agencies -- Social aspects; INTERGOVERNMENTAL personnel programs; REGRESSION analysis; FOREIGN relations of the European Union; MOROCCAN politics &; government, 1999-; EMPLOYEES
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen (ZIB), 2012, Vol 19, Issue 1, p85
- ISSN
0946-7165
- Publication type
Article