This major study examines the regeneration of the former communist parties in East Central Europe after 1989.

Why do some governing parties limit their opportunistic behaviour and constrain the extraction of private gains from the state? This analysis of post-communist

It has long been assumed that the historical legacy of Soviet Communism would have an important effect on post-communist states. However, prior research has foc

Immediately after 1989, newly emerging polities in Eastern Europe had to contend with an overbearing and dominant legacy: the Soviet model of the state. At that

This volume presents a shared effort to apply a general historical-institutionalist approach to the problem of assessing institutional change in the wake of com