Emerging Democracies in East Central Europe and the Balkans

'. . . the book is informative and easy to read. It also includes a number of useful tables of election outcomes, and basic data on the countries covered.' - Adrian Hyde-Price, International Affairs 'It is a sturdy work, of real value to the traveller who makes a political voyage through today's East central Europe.' - Frederick Quinn, Ethnic Research Digest This book offers a comprehensive analytical comparison of the democratization process in twelve countries of East Central Europe and the Balkans. It characterizes the types of democratization which have occurred in the region from 1989 until the end of 1997 and sets these recent changes within the framework of the political history of the countries.