Description
This title was first published in 2001. This series brings together the most significant journal articles to appear in the field of comparative politics since the 1970s. The aim is to render accessible to teachers, researchers and students, an extensive range of essays as a basis for understanding established terrain and new ground.
Table of Contents
IV: Values and Political Change; 23: The Politics and Economics of Democratic Commitment: Support for Democracy in Transition Societies; 24: Trajectories of Fear and Hope; 25: Re-evaluating Mass Support for Political and Economic Change in Russia; 26: Political and Economic Markets: Changes in the Connections Between Attitudes Toward Political Democracy and a Market Economy Within the Mass Culture of Russia and Ukraine; 27: Conceptions of Democracy Among Mass and Elite in Post-Soviet Societies; 28: Trust, Distrust and Skepticism: Popular Evaluations of Civil and Political Institutions in Post-Communist Societies; V: Politics and Society; 29: Women and Democratization; 30: Economic Chaos and the Fragility of Democratic Transition in Former Communist Regimes; 31: Recombinant Property in East European Capitalism 1; 32: Civil Society Endangered; 33: From Soviet Nomenklatura to Russian Élite; 34: Types of political elites in postcommunist Eastern Europe; 35: Religion and Political Action in Postcommunist Europe; 36: Democratization and Disintegration in Multinational States; VI: Postcommunist Politics, Comparative Politics; 37: The Political Science of Democratic Transition in Eastern Europe; 38: The Conceptual Travels of Transitologists and Consolidologists: How Far to the East Should They Attempt to Go?; 39: Should Transitologists Be Grounded?; 40: Comparing East and South; 41: If Not Democracy, What? Leaders, Laggards, and Losers in the Postcommunist World; 42: oward Consolidated Democracies; 43: Democratization in central and east European countries; 44: Theories of Democratization and Patterns of Regime Change in Eastern Europe; 45: Public Opinion in New Democracies; Conclusion: Postcommunist Politics and Beyond
