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Recent Scholarly Publications
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Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World
December 2009
This volume brings together a distinguished group of scholars working on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to examine in depth three waves of democratic change that took place in eleven...
Why Workers Mobilize: Working Conditions and Activism Attitudes
January 2009
Various forms of sabotage and corruption that stem from workers' inability to voice their discontent at perceived injustices any other way have cost the Soviet and post- Soviet societies dearly....
International Actors, Democratization, and the Rule of Law: Anchoring Democracy?
July 2008
Do external factors facilitate or hamper domestic democratic development?
Ukraine Imports Democracy
October 2007
The United States and the European Union spend roughly $1.5 billion per year on democracy promotion, but how effective are such external efforts?
Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine's Democratic Breakthrough
December 2006
The dramatic series of protests and political events that unfolded in Ukraine in the fall of 2004--the "Orange Revolution"--were seminal both for Ukrainian history and the history of...
Contagion Deterred: Preemptive Authoritarianism in the Former Soviet Union (the Case of Belarus)
June 2006
The wave of democratic electoral revolutions in the Eastern Europe and post-Communist Eurasia revived one of the most appealing and at the same time disputable arguments in the theory of...
Pigs, Wolves and the Evolution of Post-Soviet Competitive Authoritarianism, 1992-2005
June 2006
This paper explores the sources of both autocratic breakdown and democratization in the context of the six post-Soviet countries that emerged as competitive authoritarian between 1990 and 1995:...
When the Wave Hits a Shoal: The Internal and External Dimensions of Russia's Turn Away from Democracy
May 2006
When Vladimir Putin was elected President of Russia in March 2000, the country bequeathed to him by his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, was an unconsolidated, often disorderly and raucous electoral...
Transitions from Postcommunism
July 2005
The collapse of communism did not lead smoothly or quickly to theconsolidation of liberal democracy in Europe and the former SovietUnion.
What Democracy Assistance Is and Is Not
January 2005
Events in Ukraine have inspired most people living in the free world.
Democracy After Communism
December 2002
The last quarter of the twentieth century was marked by two dramatic political trends that altered many of the world's regimes: the global resurgence of democracy and the collapse of communism.
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