Acknowledgments ix Country Code Abbreviations Used in Figures 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, and 7.1 xv 1 Communism's Shadow 1 2 Living through Communism 32 3 Methods and Data 63 4 Democracy 99 5 Markets 136 6 Social Welfare 186 7 Gender Equality 215 8 Temporal Resilience and Change 247 9 Legacies and Communism 282 Bibliography 313 Index 333
Grigore Pop-Eleches is professor of politics and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He is the author of From Economic Crisis to Reform. Joshua A. Tucker is professor ofpolitics and (by courtesy) Russianand Slavic studiesand data science at New York University. He is the author of Regional Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, 19901999.
"[An] immensely ambitious, careful, and data-rich study. . . .
Those trying to pin down with greater precision the legacy of
communism now have a model to emulate."---Robert Legvold, Foreign
Affairs
"In this immensely ambitious, careful, and data-rich study,
Pop-Eleches and Tucker do not merely explore the historical legacy
of communism in eastern Europe; they also tackle the far more
difficult problem of distinguishing its impact from that of other
factors."
*Foreign Affairs*
"This book should be widely read by those interested in
post-communist politics and societies, but it should also find a
broader audience, as it sets a high standard in how to do research
with public opinion datasets and wrestle with questions of the
legacy effects of prior political systems."---Paul Kubicek, Slavic
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