We propose a remedy for the discrepancy between the way political scientists analyze data
with missing values and the recommendations of the statistics community. Methodologists …

Countries in the third wave of democratization have introduced competitive elections before
establishing basic institutions of a modern state such as the rule of law, institutions of civil …

After the Deluge offers a new, provocative interpretation of Russia's struggle in the 1990s to
construct a democratic system of government in the largest and most geographically divided …

The mixed-superposition system is a relatively new variant of the German electoral system. It
has been adopted by emerging and established democracies without adequate …

Previous studies of Russia search for party identification in an all-or-nothing fashion. We
adopt an alternative approach to studying the emergence of mass partisanship in new …

In one of the more stunning developments of the post-Cold War era, Russia has been host
since the early 1990s to a virtual army of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from the …

Political business cycle theories tend to focus on one policy instrument or macroeconomic
lever at a time. Efforts to find empirical evidence of opportunistic business cycles have …

Russia has a new parliament and a new president, and the shape of its future political life
remains uncertain. Taking the elections of 1999 and 2000 as their starting point, the …

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

Feldman, Valenty, and their contributors present state-of-the-art evaluations of linkages
between personality, motivation, decision making, leadership style, and behavior among …