Table of Contents

Introduction, Geoffrey Pridham and Tatu Vanhanen , Part One: Political Change in Historical and Structural Perspective 1. Democractic transitions in theory and practice: Southern European lessons for eastern Europe, Geoffrey Pridham 2. Groups, parties and political change in eastern Europe from 1977, Michael Waller 3. Predicting and explaining democratization in eastern Europe, Tatu Vanhanen and Richard Kimber Part Two: Emerging Party Systems and Institutions 4. Building party systems after the dictatorship: the east European cases in a comparative perspective, Maurizio Cotta 5. The founding electoral systems in Eastern Europe, 1989-1991, Kimmo Kuusela , 6. The emergence of multi-party systems in east-central Europe: a comparative analysis, Paul Lewis , Bill Lomax and Gordon Wightman^M, Part Three: The External Dimension 7. The Soviet Union and eastern Europe, 1988-89: interactions between domestic change and foreign policy, Tomas Niklasson 8. Democratization in eastern Europe: the external dimension, Adrian Hyde-Price Conclusion Geoffrey Pridham and Tatu Vanhanen

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Geoffrey Pridham, Tatu Vanhanen