Popular trust in political institutions is vital to democracy, but in post-Communist countries,
popular distrust for institutions is widespread, and prospects for generating increased …

Populism has become a favourite catchword for mass media and politicians faced with the
challenge of protest parties or movements. It has often been equated with radical right …

This article offers a critical investigation of one indicator of support for democracy frequently
used by comparativists. Departing from a theoretical multidimensional model of political …

While some capital networks are used to produce goods and services in every society, their
form is distinctive in an" antimodern" society—that is, a society characterized by …

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 …

Electoral Systems and Political Transformation in Post-Communist Europe assesses the
influence of electoral systems on political change in 20 post-communist European states …

Economic transition lowered happiness on average, but did not affect everyone equally. This
paper uses Hungarian survey data to study the impact of religion and economic transition on …

Despite dramatic increases in poverty, unemployment, and social inequalities, the Central
and Eastern European transitions from communism to market democracy in the 1990s have …

To understand party identification in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe, we need
to give equal attention to negative partisanship—the identification of a party that an …

Focusing on the gap between democratic ideals and performance, three European
academics study the common experience and even more common perception of the corrupt …