Table of Contents
Prologue Valerie Bunce, Michael McFaul and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss
Part I. Waves of Regime Change:
From Dictatorship to Democracy … and Back?: 1. The missing variable: the 'international system' as the link between third and fourth wave models of democratization Michael McFaul
2. A regional tradition: the diffusion of democratic change under communism and post-communism Valerie Bunce and Sharon Wolchick
Part II. Encouraging Democracy:
The Role of the EU: 3. When Europeanization meets transformation: lessons from the unfinished East European revolutions Alina Pippidi
4. Democratization in post-communist Europe: illiberal regimes and the leverage of the European Union Milada Vachudova
Part III. Choosing Regime Change:
Democratizing Elections: 5. A post-communist transition in two acts: the 1996–97 antigovernment struggle in Bulgaria as a bridge between the 1989–92 and 1996–2007 democratization waves in Eastern Europe Tsveta Petrova
6. Defining and domesticating the electoral model: a comparison of Slovakia and Serbia Valerie Bunce and Sharon Wolchik
7. Georgia's rose revolution: from regime weakness to regime collapse Cory Welt
8. Importing revolution: internal and external factors in Ukraine's 2004 democratic breakthrough Michael McFaul
Part IV. Resisting Reform:
Backsliding Democracies and Enduring Autocracies: 9. Resistance to contagion: sources of authoritarian stability in the former Soviet Union Lucan Way
10. Comparing oranges and apples: the internal and external dimensions of Russia's turn away from democracy Kathryn Stoner-Weiss
11. Contagion deterred: preemptive authoritarianism in the former Soviet Union (the case of Belarus) Vitali Silitski
12. A horse of a different color: revolution and regression and Kyrgyzstan Scott Radnitz
Epilogue: the changing character of the global struggle for democracy Valerie Bunce, Michael McFaul and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss.
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