'Making democracy work' in the Eastern half of Europe: Explaining and conceptualising divergent trajectories of post-communist democratisation

Perspectives on European Politics and Society

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 109-130

  Bideleux, Robert ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Civil society; Democratisation; Liberalisation; Power relations; Power structures; Putnam; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547380236     PISSN: 15705854     EISSN: 15680258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15705850701322335     Document Type: Article

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