Democratisation and Institutional Reform in Albania (New Perspectives on South-East Europe)

Albania's democratic transition - one of the longest and most arduous of post-communist Europe - has failed to produce consolidated institutions. Therefore, this book undertakes the first comprehensive review of Albania's military and judicial reform - from 1992 to 2009 - to ascertain why military reform produced substantial institutionalisation and judicial reform did not. The author analyses the different outcomes by outlining how political elites constructed the interests that shaped their subsequent political actions. Overall, this book presents a novel theoretical account for institutionalisation in emerging democracies and sheds light on two of Albania's most important democratisation reforms. The book will appeal to practitioners working on institutionalisation reforms, institutionalist and democratisation researchers interested in post-authoritarian transitions, and area study scholars focusing on Albania and the Western Balkans.-- Provided by publisher Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Introduction (Elvin Gjevori)....Pages 1-10 An Overview of the Military and Judiciary in Albania (Elvin Gjevori)....Pages 11-31 Mainstream Institutionalist Approaches (Elvin Gjevori)....Pages 33-51 A New Account of Institutionalisation (Elvin Gjevori)....Pages 53-71 Conceptualisation and Measurement (Elvin Gjevori)....Pages 73-91 Newspaper Coverage and Parliamentary Debate of Judicial Reform (Elvin Gjevori)....Pages 93-136 Newspaper Coverage of Military Reform (Elvin Gjevori)....Pages 137-180 Parliamentary Debate of Military Reform (Elvin Gjevori)....Pages 181-225 Conclusions and Implications (Elvin Gjevori)....Pages 227-237 Back Matter ....Pages 239-253