Despite a growing number of studies featuring “informality” in their title, including many from
the post-socialist region, little has been done to reach a consensus on what informality …

Why do some autocracies remain stable while others collapse? This article presents a
theoretical framework that seeks to explain the longevity of autocracies by referring to three …

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

The book investigates the scope and limitations of the transformative power of EU
enlargement in the Western Balkans. The extension of EU enlargement policy to the region …

Nothing will unlock Africa's economic potential more than ending the cancer of
corruption...[H] ere in Africa, corruption drains billions of dollars from economies that can't …

Since 2007 an increasing number of articles have diagnosed 'freedom in retreat'and
predicted a 'return to the authoritarian great powers'. Highly distinguished scholars warn …

The literature on European Union enlargement has identified misfit and membership
conditionality as two factors that decisively shape the effectiveness of EU policy transfer to …

This article argues that the traditional political science definition of clientelism is insufficient
for explaining how the media fit in with clientelistic systems in Central and Eastern Europe …

Die wissenschaftliche Analyse politischer Regime prägte im 20. Jahrhundert ein
demokratisches Vorurteil. In unzähligen Studien wurde versucht, Demokratien zu …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to highlight both the ways in which transnational
organized crime has developed and will develop, and also some problems in relation to …