This book is an attempt to tackle the problem of democratization in East-Central Europe from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Its contributors look at the process of change within a comparative framework, discussing the emergence of multi-party and new electoral systems, comparing democratic transition in other parts of the world with that of Eastern Europe and analysing that region's relationship with the Soviet Union.
Democratization in Eastern Europe will be indespensable to upper-level students of East European Politics, and will also be useful for those with more comparative and theoretical interests.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction, Geoffrey Pridham and Tatu Vanhanen , Part One: Political Change in Historical and Structural Perspective 1. Democractic transitions in theory and practice: Southern European lessons for eastern Europe, Geoffrey Pridham 2. Groups, parties and political change in eastern Europe from 1977, Michael Waller 3. Predicting and explaining democratization in eastern Europe, Tatu Vanhanen and Richard Kimber Part Two: Emerging Party Systems and Institutions 4. Building party systems after the dictatorship: the east European cases in a comparative perspective, Maurizio Cotta 5. The founding electoral systems in Eastern Europe, 1989-1991, Kimmo Kuusela , 6. The emergence of multi-party systems in east-central Europe: a comparative analysis, Paul Lewis , Bill Lomax and Gordon Wightman^M, Part Three: The External Dimension 7. The Soviet Union and eastern Europe, 1988-89: interactions between domestic change and foreign policy, Tomas Niklasson 8. Democratization in eastern Europe: the external dimension, Adrian Hyde-Price Conclusion Geoffrey Pridham and Tatu Vanhanen
