We explain a lack of civic culture in today's Russia, closely related to a democratic deficit in
the country, by a path dependency which has originated at the critical juncture of transition to …

The fundamental problem in Russia's derailed transition is its enfeebled and profoundly
dysfunctional state. The collapse of Soviet financial and state structures, polarized elite …

In this paper we try to describe the main feature of Russian civic culture that could influence
the outcome of the reform, initiated in 1992, and discuss channels through which the …

The purpose of this chapter is to address the following questions. How has support among
Russians for democratic values and institutions changed since 1990? Does such support …

While in Central-Eastern Europe and in the Baltics democracy and market reform have been
consolidated, culminating in entry to the European Union, in the states of the former Soviet …

A central issue in the study of democratic transitions is the extent to which values in
emerging democracies are democratic, since extended periods of authoritarian rule can …

Russia's present system of government did not result inevitably from historical structures,
that is from cultural, geographic, or socio-economic inheritances from the Soviet or tsarist …

Key elements in the evolution of Russia are the transition to democracy and a market-type
economy. The success of these two related processes depends on political stability to a …

I examine how the nature of the state and its relationship to its people are determined and
evolve. I bring together differing contributions of traditional institutionalism to further an …

The recent wave of political and economic liberalization spreading over much of the globe
has unleashed a flood of scholarly speculation about the sources of successful democratic …