Does democracy promote the creation of market economies and robust state institutions? Do
state-building and market-building go hand in hand? Or do they work at cross-purposes …

Why and when do businessmen run for public office rather than rely upon other means of
influence? What are the implications of their participation for public policy? We show …

I started to think about the ideas that inform this book while I was working on another project,
at the point when the Soviet Union was seriously beginning to crumble. On one particular …

An accountable democracy requires institutionalized parties. A supply—demand model
hypothesizes that institutionalization is a function of four sets of influences: stability in …

Ungarn feierte im Jahr 2000 das Millennium seiner Staatsgründung. Der erste ungarische
König, Stephan der Heilige, wurde im Jahre 1000 gekrönt. Nach verschiedenen …

Why do some countries undergo regime changes despite legitimacy crises, while in others
de-legitimation dramatically challenges democratic and non-democratic regimes? Post …

Die Russländische Föderation, die gleichzeitig den Staatsnamen Russland (Rossijskaja
Federacija. Rossija) trägt, hat die Rechtsnachfolge der Ende 1991 untergegangenen Union …

This book examines the influence of terrorist threat in the recent elections in the US, Great
Britain, and Russia to analyze the influence of post-9/11 fears on voting behaviour in …

Russia's regions vary by how strongly their leaderships exert administrative control over
politics. Those that have lost their political competitiveness did so at different times. Using a …

Borrowing the dominant theoretical frameworks of studies of voter turnout in the developed
world, this paper tests the applicability of these frameworks to a transitional democracy in a …