Democratic forms of government are either consolidating democratic institutions or unraveling into authoritarianism in the former Soviet Union. Among the possible causes of each success or failure to consolidate democracy is the character of civil society and its cultural proximity to long-standing, modern state-based, consolidated democracies of the West. What impact does Western or Westernized media have upon the indigenous civil societies of Eastern Europe, and is this impact sufficient to consolidate democracy among the states of the former Soviet Union? As case studies, Eastern Europe contains two states, Estonia and Russia, where democracy has either succeeded or failed alongside the presence of exogenous cultural influence in the form of Western or Westernized television broadcast media. To what extent does the presence of Western broadcast media and associated cultural memes predict the iv consolidation of democratic political values, and how ought any impact of these memes be interpreted in the light of modernity, Eurocentricity and cultural hegemony? To account for the impact of exogenous cultural influence, foreign policy prescriptions that encourage the growth of indigenous, mimetic, democratic civic culture would appear to be an effective means of supporting democracy in the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe. / by John R. Batey. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2013. / Includes bibliography. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / System requirements: Adobe Reader.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 372-396). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2003. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 188-197).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2003. / Advisor: Dr. Patrick O'Sullivan, Florida State University, College of Social Sciences, Dept. of Geography. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 29, 2003). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 1990. / Thesis Advisor(s): Winterford, David. Second Reader: Tsypkin, Mikhail. "September 1990." Description based on title screen as viewed on December 29, 2009. DTIC Identifier(s): Foreign policy, foreign aid, theses, Poland, United States, economics, history, USSR, military forces (foreign). Author(s) subject terms: Poland, history, political development, military policy, United States policy. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

Thesis (M.S.)--Naval Postgraduate School, 2002. / Cover title. "June 2002." AD-A405 956. Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-108). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 1994. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 283-300).

This study determines how economic, political, and socio-demographic factors impact the parliamentary election outcomes in central and eastern European countries in transition period. A one-way fixed-effect method has been applied to analyze two main economic models. The dependent variables are share of the Western-oriented and traditional-oriented parties. Data of sixteen countries have been used in the thesis. According to the results of this study, it is possible to conclude that outcomes of parliamentary elections in central and eastern European countries depended on political and socio-demographic factors from I 990-2001. Factors such as loans, received from the United States, per capita in the pre-election year, as a measure of external pressure, and share of agriculture in GDP, as a measure of country`s level of development, demonstrate consistent significance in both variations of the model.

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of Government and Public Administration