This book seeks to explain the divergent political pathways of twenty six post-communist states, following the breakdown and eventual collapse of communism in 1

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

Revealing how the quest for independence and challenges of democratization created a contest between nationalists and Europeanists, two powerful forces in domes

The collapse of communism was widely heralded as the dawn of democracy across the former Soviet region. However, the political outcome has been much less unifor

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