Democracy in the post-communist world: An unending quest?

East European Politics and Societies

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 7-30

  Ekiert, Grzegorz ^a   Kubik, Jan ^a   Vachudova, Milada Anna ^a  

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EID: 33846491810     PISSN: 08883254     EISSN: 15338371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0888325406297170     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. The views presented here are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Club of Madrid.
2. See also David Cameron, "The Quality of Democracy in Postcommunist Europe" (Paper presented at the 101st annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 2005 ).]
3. See also Guillermo O'Donnell, "Delegative Democracy," in Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner, eds., Global Resurgence of Democracy (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1995). 94-108 ; Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way, "The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism," Journal of Democracy 13:2(2002): 51-65; and Wolfgang Merkel, "Embedded and Defective Democracies," Democratization 11:5(2004): 33-58.
4. See for example Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South Africa, and Post-Communist Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). Valerie Bunce, "The Political Economy of Postsocialism," Slavic Review 58:4(1999): 756-93; Valerie Bunce, "Rethinking Recent Democratization: Lessons from the Postcommunist Experience," World Politics 55:2(2003): 167-92; Milada Anna Vachudova and Timothy Snyder, "Are Transitions Transitory? Two Types of Political Change in Eastern Europe since 1989," East European Politics and Societies 11:1(1997): 1-35; Joel Hellman, "Winners Take All: The Politics of Partial Reform in Postcommunist Transitions," World Politics 50:2(1998): 203-34; M. Steven Fish, "The Determinants of Economic Reform in Post-Communist World," East European Politics and Societies 12:1(1998): 1-35; David Stark and Laszlo Bruszt, Postsocialist Pathways: Transforming Politics and Property in East Central Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998); Herbert Kitschelt et al., Post-Communist Party Systems (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999); Bela Greskovits, "Rival Views of Postcommunist Market Society," in Michal Dobry, ed., Democratic and Capitalist Transitions in Eastern Europe: Lessons for the Social Sciences (Amsterdam: Kluwer, 2002), 19-49; Michael McFaul, "The Fourth Wave of Democracy and Dictatorship: Noncooperative Transitions in the Postcommunist World" World Politics 54:2(2002): 212-44; Grzegorz Ekiert and Stephen E. Hanson, eds., Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003); Leszek Balcerowicz, "Understanding Postcommunist Transitions," in Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner, eds., Economic Reform and Democracy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), 86-100; Anders Aslund, Building Capitalism: The Transformation of the Former Soviet Bloc (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002); Jan Svejnar, "Transition Economies: Performance and Challenges," Journal of Economic Perspectives 16:1(2002): 3-28; Nauro Campos and Fabrizio Coricelli, "Growth in Transition: What We Know, What We Don't and What We Should," Journal of Economic Literature 40:3(2002): 793-836; and Grigore Pop-Eleches, Crisis Politics: IMF Programs in Latin America and Eastern Europe (Manuscript, 2007).
5. See Richard D. Anderson Jr. et al., Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy ( Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001 ).
6. See also Stephen Holmes, "Cultural Legacies or State Collapse? Probing the Postcommunist Dilemma," in Michael Mandelbaum, ed., Postcommunism: Four Perspectives (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1996). See also M. Steven Fish, Democracy Derailed in Russia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005); and Anna Grzymala-Busse and Pauline Jones Luong, "Reconceptualizing the State: Lessons from Post-Communism," Politics and Society 30:4(2002): 529-54.
7. See, for example, Milada Anna Vachudova, Europe Divided: Democracy, Leverage, and Integration after Communism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). Anna Grzymala-Busse, "Authoritarian Determinants of Democratic Party Competition: The Communist Successor Parties in East Central Europe," Party Politics 12:3(2006): 415-37; Conor O'Dwyer, "Runaway State Building: How Political Parties Shape States in Postcommunist Europe," World Politics 56:4(2004): 520-53; Anna Grzymala-Busse, "Political Competition and the Politicization of the State in East Central Europe," Comparative Political Studies 36:10(2003): 1123-1147; Timothy Frye, "The Perils of Polarization: Economic Performance in the Postcommunist World," World Politics 54:3(2002): 308-37; Mitchell Orenstein, Out of the Red: Building Capitalism and Democracy in Postcommunist Europe (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001); and Hellman, "Winners Take All."
8. Grzegorz Ekiert and Jan Kubik, Rebellious Civil Society: Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland, 1989-1993 ( Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999 ).
9. Leslie Armijo, Thomas Biersteker, and Abraham Lowenthal, "The Problems of Simultaneous Transitions," Journal of Democracy 5 (October 1994). 161-175.
10. Hellman, "Winners Take All." See also Stephen E. Hanson, "Analyzing Postcommunist Economic Change: A Review Essay," East European Politics and Societies 12:1(1998): 145-70; Hilary Appel, A New Capitalist Order: Privatization & Ideology in Russia and Eastern Europe(Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005); John Gould, "Out of the Blue? Democracy and Privatization in Post-Communist Europe," Comparative European Politics 1:3(2004): 277-311; and David Woodruff, Money Unmade: Barter and the Fate of Russian Capitalism(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999).
11. Vachudova, Europe Undivided. See also Heather Grabbe, The EU's Transformative Power: Europeanization through Conditionality in Central and Eastern Europe (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006); Rachel Epstein, Embedding Liberalism: International Institutions and the Transformation of Postcommunist Europe (Manuscript, 2008); Judith Kelley, Ethnic Politics in Europe: The Power of Norms and Incentives (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004); Wade Jacoby, The Enlargement of the European Union and NATO: Ordering from the Menu in Central Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004); Frank Schimmelfennig and Ulrich Sedelmeier, eds., The Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005); Liliana Andonova, Transnational Politics of the Environment: The EU and Environmental Policy in Central and Eastern Europe (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003); Beate Sissenich, Building States without Society: The Transfer of EU Social Policy to Poland and Hungary (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007); and Jan Zielonka, Europe as Empire: The Nature of the Enlarged European Union (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). On the role of international factors, see Jan Zielonka and Alex Pravda, eds., Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe, vol. 2, International and Transnational Factors (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001); Geoffrey Pridham, Designing Democracy: EU Enlargement and Regime Change in Postcommunist Europe (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005); and Jan Kubik and Grzegorz Ekiert, "Civil Society and Democratization in Poland: Forms of Organization and Types of Foreign Assistance," in Gerhard Mangott, Harald Waldrauch, and Stephen Day, eds., Democratic Consolidation: the International Dimension: Hungary, Poland, and Spain (Baden-Baden, Germany: Nomos, 2000), 257-92.