Table of Contents

List of Tables, Figures, and Pictures Foreword by Francis Fukuyama Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Cleft countries: A theoretical and comparative framework 3. Regional political divisions in post-Communist Ukraine and Moldova 4. Evolution of regional political cultures in Ukraine and Moldova 5. Culture, ethnicity, economy, and political leadership 6. Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index

About the Author

Ivan Katchanovski, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is coauthor of Paradox of American Unionism: Why Americans Like Unions More Than Canadians Do, but Join Much Less (Cornell University Press, 2004). His articles have appeared in Europe-Asia Studies, International Journal of Public Administration, Journal of Labor Research, Journal of Public Policy, and Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost. Dr. Francis Fukuyama is professor of international political economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.

Reviews

Katchanovskii's book is a fine attempt to reckon with the ambiguous variable of political culture inthe post-communist arena. [...]The author succeeds in crafting a convincing and well-supported set of arguments and his research certainly constitutes a step forward in dealing with the notoriously thorny concept of political culture. -- Thomas E. Rotnem, Southern Polytechnic State University