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

It has long been assumed that the historical legacy of Soviet Communism would have an important effect on post-communist states. However, prior research has foc

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

The importance of subnational regions to politics, governance, and economic development in Western Europe has long been recognized. However, far less is known a

For hundreds of years, dictators have ruled Russia. Do they still? In the late 1980s, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev launched a series of political reforms