High hopes were placed in the ability of the European Convention and the Court of Human Rights to help realise fundamental freedoms and civil and political righ

This book is an attempt to tackle the problem of democratization in East-Central Europe from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Its contributors look at the

This volume presents a shared effort to apply a general historical-institutionalist approach to the problem of assessing institutional change in the wake of com

"A useful text and reference book. These essays are at their best in serving both area study and political sociology."--Slavic Review --

This is the second volume in a two-volume series of books on democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe. The first volume focused on the issue of institutional