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This book, first published in 1998, analyzes democratization and economic change in the postsocialist societies of East Central Europe.

Now that nearly twenty years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet bloc there is a need to understand what has taken place since that historic date and w

With the collapse of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance in 1991, the Eastern European nations of the former socialist bloc had to figure out their newly

Examining the experiences of Western Europe and South America, Professor Collier delineates a complex and varied set of patterns of democratization.

Across the globe, more powers are being devolved to local and regional levels of government. This book provides an innovative analysis of such decentralisation