▪ Abstract Considerable attention has been paid over the past decade to political cleavages
in post-communist Eastern Europe. Investigators have attempted to establish whether such …

Authoritarian populist parties have advanced in many countries, and entered government in
states as diverse as Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Switzerland. Even small …

▪ 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 …

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 …

What is Vladimir Putin up to? This book shows how the mentality of Putin and his team-the
code of Putinism-has shaped Russian politics over the past two decades. It explains not only …

Conventional wisdom suggests that citizens in many countries have become disengaged
from the traditional channels of political participation. Commentators highlight warning signs …

From Kosovo to Kabul, the last decade witnessed growing interest in? electoral
engineering?. Reformers have sought to achieve either greater government accountability …

From the KGB to the Kremlin: a multidimensional portrait of the man at war with the West.
Where do Vladimir Putin's ideas come from? How does he look at the outside world? What …

The study of ideology in authoritarian regimes—of how public preferences are configured
and constrained—has received relatively little scholarly attention. Using data from a large …

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 …