Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-307) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : defining Central and Eastern Europe / Judy Batt -- From Communist to post-Communist politics / Mark Pittaway -- The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland / Frances Millard -- The other new Europeans / Tim Haughton -- The western Balkans / Judy Batt -- The East Europeans : Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova / Andrew Wilson -- Central and Eastern Europe and the EU / Heather Grabbe -- Executive leadership / Ray Taras -- Structures of representation / Petr Kopecký -- Electoral systems / Sarah Birch -- Political parties / Paul G. Lewis -- Citizens and politics / Krzysztof Jasiewicz -- Civil society / Cas Mudde -- Constitutional politics / Kataryna Wolczuk -- Managing transition economies / D. Mario Nuti -- The quality of post-Communist democracy / Dirk Berg-Schlosser.
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