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| List of Tables and Figures | |
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| Preface | |
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| Notes on the Contributors | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Map of Europe | |
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| Introduction: Defining Central and Eastern Europe | |
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| The 'Lands in Between': a geopolitical predicament | |
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| 'Catching up' with Europe | |
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| Bearing the brunt of European power politics | |
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| The 'return to Europe' | |
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| The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland | |
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| The structures of government | |
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| The nature of government | |
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| Political parties and party systems | |
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| Party evolution: a summary | |
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| The voters and the public | |
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| Current issues | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Other New Europeans | |
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| Meeting the challenges of post-communism | |
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| Opportunities and constraints of EU membership | |
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| Boom, bailouts and austerity | |
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| New versions of old themes | |
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| Conclusion: a tale of three elections | |
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| The Western Balkans | |
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| Political culture shaped by strategic uncertainties | |
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| Problematic statehood | |
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| Breaking with the past: transition in war-torn societies | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The East Europeans: Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova | |
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| Background | |
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| Minorities and regions | |
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| Political systems | |
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| Recent political developments in Ukraine: early steps | |
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| Politics in Belarus | |
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| Politics in Moldova | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The EU and Central and East European Politics | |
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| 'Returning to Europe': European integration in the 1900s and 2000s | |
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| The impact of EU membership on public opinion and political parties | |
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| The impact of EU membership on political institutions and governance | |
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| Impact of the new member states on the EU | |
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| Conclusions: have the Central European member states changed the EU? | |
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| The International Transformation and Re-regionalizarion of 'Eastern Europe' | |
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| Regional state formations in Central and Eastern European after the Cold War | |
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| Visigrad | |
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| The future orientation of the West Balkans and post-Soviet European states | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Executive Leadership | |
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| What is the political executive? | |
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| The appeal of mixed systems | |
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| Executive experimentation | |
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| Factors shaping the political executive | |
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| The social background of Central and Eastern European leaders | |
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| The state machine and executive leadership | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Elections and Voters | |
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| Elections under communism | |
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| Electoral systems | |
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| Electoral participation | |
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| Vote choice | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Representation and Accountability: The Parliaments | |
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| Legislatures and transitions | |
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| Representation, elections and parties | |
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| Political parties from elections to parliaments | |
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| The members | |
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| Internal organization of parliaments | |
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| Activities of parliaments | |
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| Legislative-executive relations | |
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| Institutionalization and conflict | |
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| Political Parties | |
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| Origins and evolution of CEE parties | |
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| Party organization | |
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| Party systems | |
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| CEE party politics in comparative context | |
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| Citizens and Politics | |
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| Mass upheaval | |
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| Civil society | |
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| Protest politics | |
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| Media | |
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| Popular attitudes and democratic consolidation | |
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| Recovering from Transition in Eastern Europe: Neoliberal Reform in Retrospect | |
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| The background | |
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| The communist heritage | |
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| Neoliberal economic reforms | |
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| Examining other factors | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Social Change and Social Policy | |
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| Social structure of 'state socialism' | |
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| Social transformation and social policy | |
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| Growing income inequalities | |
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| Poverty | |
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| The consequences of the global economic crisis | |
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| A newly emerging social structure | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Quality of Post-Communist Democracy | |
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| A paradox | |
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| Quality as procedures: do institutions allow for democracy? | |
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| Quality as preconditions: are citizens in a position to make democracy work? | |
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| Quality as representation: are citizens actually ruling? | |
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| Quality as outcomes: do citizens benefit from democracy? | |
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| The past and the future of democratic quality | |
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| Guide to Further Reading | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |