1st Edition
Democracy Building and Civil Society in Post-Soviet Armenia
Introduction 1. Democracy, Civil Society and Power 2. Civil Society Participation in Elections 3. Civil Society and the Anti-Domestic Violence Campaign 4. Culture and Democracy Building 5. The Soviet Legacy and Democracy Building 6. The Voices of the Donors 7. Conclusion
Biography
Armine Ishkanian is a Lecturer at the London School of Economics (LSE) Centre for Civil Society, Department of Social Policy and a Research Associate at the LSE Centre for the Study of Global Governance. Her research interests focus on civil society, democracy building, development, and gender. She has published widely on these topics in leading journals including Social Politics, Journal of International Development, and Central Asian Survey.
"Ishkanian skillfully crafts an analytical narrative of the emergence of civil society and democracy in Armenia. A native speaking of Armenian, she excels at obtaining interviews and local insight. Theoretically sophisticated, she brings to bear a variety of concepts and approaches, underlining the uneven development of civil society and stressing the unequal distribution of its benefits (especially to women). She is exceptionally astute when discussing the contributions such as United States Agency for International Development...Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduate through research collections." - CHOICE, Apr. 2009 Vol. 46 No. 08
