There is considerable irony in the current search for the causes of th rapid political changes
sweeping the communist world after 1988. I retrospect, it is not hard to single out a number …

An American political scientist reviews existing theories of transition from communism to
democracy. Novel arguments suggesting that both regimecentered and society-centered …

The evident stability and durability of communist regimes have raised this question: what
theoretical model, what political ideal guides the way in which they conduct their political …

How have the 27 countries that emerged from communist rule between 1989 and 1992 fared
since then? This book offers distinctive perspectives, by four leading students of politics, on …

Author: Cheung, Steven NS Source: Contemporary Economic Policy v. 16 no2 (Apr. 1998) p.
247# 9 ISSN: 1074# 3529 Number: BSSI98018734 Copyright: The magazine publisher is …

It is quite common to claim that the post-communist transition in Eastern-Central Europe is
an entirely unique process, without any precedent in history. This is an understandable …

Many things make up a modern society: its history, culture, natural setting, wealth, classes,
and peoples. For some, the power structure, the political system, lies at the heart of the …

The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not
done away with clash antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of …

While the ouster of Khrushchev has inevitably resuited in more open access to the political
arena for other elite groups, it has not seriously weakened the political-power position of the …

States, and through all the universities and think-tanks from Massachusetts Bay to the Pacific
Rim And this conceptual world embraces four socil science disciplnes: economics, political …