What makes countries rich? What makes countries poor? Europe's Growth Champion:
Insights from the Economic Rise of Poland seeks to answer these questions, and many …

The authors explore how modern autocrats win elections by inducing employers to mobilize
their employees to vote for the regime and thereby subvert the electoral process. using two …

How middle-class economic dependence on the state impedes democratization and
contributes to authoritarian resilience Conventional wisdom holds that the rising middle …

How does democracy work in the new democracies of Eastern Europe? Do the people
actually rule as one would expect in a democracy or do the legacies of communism and the …

Are citizens in the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe able to hold politicians
accountable at elections? The inheritance of communism—disengaged citizens, economic …

This article applies a multinomial logit estimator to investigate which factors affect SME
owners' expectations to grow their businesses in Lithuania. Our findings provide evidence …

Nation Branding, Public Relations and Soft Power: Corporatizing Poland provides an
empirically grounded analysis of changes in the way in which various actors seek to …

Wrestling with basic problems of causal inference between institutions and outcomes has
been a central focus of political science over the last decade, and as elsewhere in the …

Scholars have long viewed the middle class as an agent of democratization. This article
provides the first rigorous cross-national analysis of middle class regime preferences …

Through the prism of'Nowa Huta', a landmark of socialist industrialization, Trappmann
challenges the one-sided account of Poland as a successful transition case and reveals the …