Civil society, youth and societal mobilization in democratic revolutions.

Autor/in	Kuzio, Taras
Titel	Civil society, youth and societal mobilization in democratic revolutions. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Zivilgesellschaft, Jugend und gesellschaftliche Mobilisierung in demokratischen Revolutionen.
Quelle	Aus: Kuzio, Taras (Hrsg.): Aspects of the Orange Revolution. 6. Post-communist democratic revolutions in comparative perspective. Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verl. (2007) S. 123-152Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	Soviet and post-soviet politics and society. 68
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
ISSN	1614-3515
ISBN	978-3-89821-820-7
Schlagwörter	Beobachtung; Erfolg; Soziale Rolle; Jugend; Demokratisierung; Nachfolgestaat; Nachsozialistische Gesellschaft; Politische Opposition; Protest; Protestbewegung; Präsidentschaftswahl; Revolution; Wahl; Zivilgesellschaft; Training; Studentenbewegung; Internationaler Vergleich; Strategie; Jugendverband; Nichtstaatliche Organisation; Georgien; Serbien; Sowjetunion; Ukraine
Abstract	"Youth have played an important role in mobilizing support for democratic revolutions during elections that have facilitated regime change. In Serbia (2000), Georgia (2003) and Ukraine (2004) youth led the way in organizing democratic coalitions among hitherto warring opposition parties that the authorities had successfully divided and ruled over. In the three countries used as case studies, youth dominated civil society and election monitoring NGO's. The article outlines a five fold framework and discusses the issues that help understand the role of youth in democratic revolutions as well as those essential conditions that lead to success. Regime change only proved successful during certain time period, in our case electoral revolutions when the authorities were at their weakest. Organization of youth groups led to the creation of Otpor (Serbia), Kmara (Georgia) and Pora (Ukraine) and provided the youth movements with structure and purpose. The training of these organized youth NGOs became a third important condition for success and often was undertaken with Western technical and financial assistance. The choice of strategies to be employed during elections was an important fourth feature. In the three country case studies, discussed in this article, the response of the authorities proved to be ineffective, weak and counterproductive." (author's abstract).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2009/1