Democracy and Its Alternatives: Understanding Post-Communist Societies

Abstract

List of tables and figures. Part I: Competing Claims for Popular Support: . 1. Competition between Regimes: A Problem of Supply and Demand. 2. Democracy and Undemocratic Alternatives. 3. Uncertain Dynamics of Democratization. 4. Comparing and Contrasting Post--Communist Societies. Part II: Mass Response to Transformation:. 5. Popular Support for Competing Regimes. 6. Impact of Social Structure Old and New. 7. Political Legacies and Performance. 8. Reacting to Economic Transformation. 9. How Much do Context, Countries and Sequence Matter?. 10. Completing Democracy?. Appendices. References. Index.