Many fear that democracies are suffering from a legitimacy crisis. This book focuses
on'democratic deficits', reflecting how far the perceived democratic performance of any state …

This paper compares electoral outcomes of 1999 parliamentary elections in Russia among
geographical areas with differential access to the only national TV channel independent …

To survive, all forms of government require popular support, whether voluntary or
involuntary. Following the collapse of the Soviet system, Russia's rulers took steps toward …

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Central Asian states have developed liberal-
constitutional formal institutions. However, at the same time, political phenomena in Central …

Despite ample evidence of preelection volatility in vote intentions in new democracies,
scholars of comparative politics remain skeptical that campaigns affect election outcomes …

During the 1990s American leaders and many others in the West viewed Russia as the most
important test case for a transition to democracy. Today the consensus of scholarly analyses …

As Marc Hooghe suggests, the study of political trust is of fundamental importance in political
science research. We are delighted that our article has provoked debate and welcome …

The present paper is written twenty years after homosexuality was removed from the Israeli
legal code. In just two decades homosexual men1 who mostly lived in the shadowy …

The concept of a catch-all party, first introduced by the German-American scholar Otto
Kirchheimer in the 1950s and 1960s, has become a mainstay in the analysis of political …

Twenty years of post-communist democratic transition have resulted in turbulent changes of
the party landscape of Central and Eastern Europe In his prophetic contribution, Mair3 has …