caa a22 4500 475829999 CHVBK 20180406123839.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1008972025531 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1008972025531 Glenn John Council for European Studies, Columbia University, 420 West 118th Street, Mail code 3310, 10027;, New York, New York aut Civil Society Transformed: International Aid to New Political Parties in the Czech Republic and Slovakia [Elektronische Daten] [John Glenn] How do international nonprofit organizations influence political party formation in new democracies? Despite recent analyses of external influences on economic restructuring, less attention has been paid to international assistance to political parties. Contrary to the scholarly literature stressing preexisting socioeconomic cleavages, I argue that new parties may emerge around political cleavages during rapid change; international assistance may encourage new parties to adopt organizational forms and issue areas lacking historical precedent, which are subsequently adapted to mobilize domestic public support. To demonstrate this claim, I contrast assistance by U.S. political party affiliates to parties in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, where similar revolutionary movements emerged in the name of "civil society” in 1989 but diverged, with a Western market-oriented party in the Czech Republic and populist semidemocratic party in Slovakia winning subsequent elections. The divergent paths highlight the limits to applying Western models of party organization across contexts and the need for democratic actors to be strengthened beyond founding elections. International Society for Third-Sector Research, 2000 civil society nationallicence political parties nationallicence international non-governmental organizations nationallicence Eastern Europe nationallicence Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 11/2(2000-06-01), 161-179 0957-8765 11:2<161 2000 11 11266 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008972025531 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008972025531 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Glenn John Council for European Studies, Columbia University, 420 West 118th Street, Mail code 3310, 10027;, New York, New York aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 11/2(2000-06-01), 161-179 0957-8765 11:2<161 2000 11 11266 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer