▪ Abstract This review assesses the state of the newly emerging field of the study of post-
communist elections and voting by building and analyzing a database of 101 articles on the …

The past two decades have seen a resurgence of democracy in formerly autocratic
countries. The behavior of the electorate in each first election following a period of …

This essay surveys the rules of parliamentary elections in Central and East European and
post-Soviet states. As the post-communist countries emerge from sweeping institutional …

This book uses elections as a vehicle to explain the unanticipated outcomes of post-Soviet
politics. It assesses how the behavior of voters, candidates and government officials is …

I analyze economic determinants of voting behavior in post-communist elections in the
Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. I argue that election results reflect the …

An American political scientist employs regional electoral, economic, and demographic data
across several transition countries—Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Czech Republic, and …

This study demonstrates that in a time of massive change characterized by the emergence of
entirely new political systems and a fundamental reorganization of economic life, systematic …

To what extent did Russia's parliamentary elections of December 1993 constitute a move in
the direction of those norms and practices commonly associated with electoral democracy …

Scholars studying electoral systems have consistently found that single-member plurality
elections tend to constrain the number of parties operating in a polity to a much greater …

The first edition of Comparing Democracies was a landmark text, providing students with a
thematic introduction to the global study of elections and voting. In this major new edition the …