In the past few years, the area of politics and culture has moved from the margins of cultural
inquiry to its center as evidenced by the number of persons who identify themselves as …

Post-Communist Party Systems examines democratic party competition in four post-
communist polities in the mid-1990's, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Polan d …

The fall of the Berlin wall raised many questions about Germany and post-socialist countries.
Given East Germany's authoritarian history, how democratic are its citizens now? What kind …

The postcommunist regimes in East-Central Europe are confronted with the double
challenge of establishing a democratic order and a market economy. The book discusses …

Electorates in several East European countries have thrown their support behind
reconstructed communist parties. Is personal economic hardship driving this phenomenon …

Research on Eastern European attitudes toward democracy has not comprehensively
examined the economic, social, and political origins of support for and satisfaction with …

This book raises interesting questions about the process of democratization in Hong Kong. It
asks why democracy has been so long delayed when Hong Kong's level of socio-economic …

Following the collapse of socialism in the late 1980s, Central and Eastern European
countries initiated attempts to adopt capitalist economic frameworks and promote …

Strong showings by antireform parties in elections in Russia and other East European
nations in the early and mid-1990s raised concerns about the long-term prospects for …

This paper tests a model of cross-national variation in participation, using survey data from
Spain, Brazil, and Korea. We posit a continuum ranging from neighborhood ties through …