This book examines the way democracy is thought about and lived by people in the post-communist world.

Examines democratic party competition in four post-communist polities in the 1990s. The work illustrates developments regarding different voter appeal of partie

Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that characterize post-communist regimes, this is the most comprehensive

This wide-ranging overview of the processes of democratization in post-Communist Europe, places the transitions in East-Central Europe within a broad European a

Examines in depth three waves of democratic change that took place in eleven different former Communist nations.