Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy

"This book uses the postcommunist experience to sharpen theorizing about transitions to (and from) democracy. It will have considerable appeal to the large scholarly community concerned with recent democratization (whatever its geographical focus) and to their students. The contributors, all well-known scholars who share considerable area expertise but diverge in their theoretical approaches, provide the reader with a rethinking of a number of concepts and arguments central to the study of democratization."--Valerie Bunce, Cornell University, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 2000-2001 "The authors argue convincingly that many of the postcommunist cases appear to be an anomaly from the perspective of democratic theory, and that these anomalies need to be explained. They are very well read in the literature on democratization in addition to their area specialties, and they have something important to say about a question central to comparative politics."--Stephen Crowley, Oberlin CollegeAnderson, Richard is the author of 'Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy', published 2001 under ISBN 9780691089171 and ISBN 0691089175.