Emerging Democracies in East Central Europe and the Balkans

Studies of Communism in Transition series

Attila Ágh, Professor Emeritus, Institute of Political Science, Budapest Corvinus University, Hungary

This book offers a comprehensive analytical comparison of the democratization process in twelve countries of East Central Europe and the Balkans. It characterizes the types of democratization which have occurred in the region from 1989 until the end of 1997 and sets these recent changes within the framework of the political history of the countries.

‘Agh combines area studies and comparative politics, so frequently divided after the collapse of communism, in a harmonious way . . . The value of this volume – compared to so many collections of papers by various authors – lies in the systematic uniformity with which the material on various countries is presented . . . The book will prove to be extremely useful as a textbook in comparative politics and East European studies.’
– Klaus von Beyme, Slavic Review

‘. . . the book is informative and easy to read. It also includes a number of useful tables of election outcomes, and basic data on the countries covered.’
– Adrian Hyde-Price, International Affairs

‘It is a sturdy work, of real value to the traveller who makes a political voyage through today’s East central Europe.’
– Frederick Quinn, Ethnic Research Digest