Among the many countries that underwent transitions to democracy in recent decades, only
Russia is as important to the United States and the world as Brazil. The fifth-largest country …

The last few decades has seen a prolonged debate over the nature and importance of social
class as a basis for ideology, class voting and class politics. The prevailing assumption is …

We propose a comprehensive statistical model for analyzing multiparty, district-level
elections. This model, which provides a tool for comparative politics research analogous to …

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 …

This paper examines change in economic justice attitudes in five former communist states
(Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, eastern Germany, Hungary, and Russia), using data from …

Since 1989 six Central and East European countries have held competitive elections under
17 different electoral systems. After some experimentation, the new electoral systems …

Mit Klaus von Beyme kommt nun ein Sozialwissenschaftler zu Wort, der nach einer
methodologischen Rundumschau über Entwicklungen, Theorien und Tendenzen in der …

Between 1993 and 1996 Russia underwent a rapid transition to the market and, through a
number of electoral iterations, saw considerable development in its party system, in …

A distinguished British specialist on Soviet and Russian politics analyzes failures in Yeltsin's
Russia and the reasons many observers have failed to understand or anticipate them. The …

Applying traditional notions of the concept 'political cleavage'to Russian society is
premature. Judicious analysis of public opinion data demonstrates that, despite any …