Works on the 1848 revolutions, 1989 collapse of European communism, 1998–2005
postcommunist color revolutions, and 2011 Arab uprisings frequently cross-reference each …

From the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy
across the developing and post-Communist worlds transformed the global political …

Europe Undivided analyzes how an enlarging EU has facilitated a convergence toward
liberal democracy among credible future members of the EU in Central and Eastern Europe …

In 2007 Ivan Krastev argued that EU-enforced 'liberal consensus' in East Central Europe
was giving way to illiberal, but ultimately benign, populism. Post-accession 'backsliding'in …

This article shows that post-communist regime trajectories have been largely circumscribed
by historical legacy differences, but the question about which particular legacy matters most …

Andrea Lorenzo Capussela has a PhD on the cross-border aspects of competition policy
from the University of Milan. He then moved to Kosovo, where until the end of March 2011 …

This paper uses a historical experiment–the occupation of South Eastern Europe by the
Ottoman Empire–to shed light on the persistence of financial development. Interest-lending …

Of the 15 republics that emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, six have
predominantly Muslim populations. These nations are Azerbaijan, in the southern …

We estimate the impact of market development and democratization on subjective political
preferences. We rely on the specific situation of frontier zones and the considerable regional …

Within cultures, people develop a shared gender belief system that includes the content of
gender stereotypes, masculinity and femininity, and attitudes toward people who deviate …