▪ 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 …

To what extent are the social bases of political divisions in former communist societies
consistent with those observed in Western democracies? This review critically examines …

Политическая психология для России новая наука. Только в эпоху перестройки в начале
90-х годов появились работы, посвященные этому раздел социальной психологии …

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 …

Subjects obey. Citizens choose. Transitional Citizens looks at the newly empowered citizens
of Russia's protodemocracy facing choices at the ballot box that just a few years ago, under …

This pioneering analysis uses the results from the first ever Irish election study to provide a
comprehensive survey of the motives, outlook and behaviour of voters in the Republic of …

The collapse of communism was widely heralded as the dawn of democracy across the
former Soviet region. However, the political outcome has been much less uniform. The post …

The 2012 political reform in Russia involved both liberalizing concessions to the public in
implementing new party registration rules and an effort to make the existing authoritarian …

POLITICAL PARTIES ARE THE CHIEF DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS representing the
views of voters and holding the government accountable. In the words of SM Lipset,'modern …

Western analysts have become increasingly concerned with President Putin's centralization
and control, with the term'managed democracy'becoming a byword for the state of the …