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The Emergence of East Central European Parliaments
Издател: Hungarian Centre of Democracy Studies
Parliaments have been the “central site” and parties the chief actors of the East Central European democratic transitions. The parliamentarization of political life and of its actors has taken the form of “overparliamentarization,” since the East Central European parliaments have had an overwhelmingly dominant role in politics. The
Reengineering Administrative Districts in Slovenia
Mirko Vintar
Издател: Open Society Institute
The development of democratic and effective government at subnational levels remains one of the central tasks of transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The sharing of expertise between countries can contribute significantly to the reform process in the region. Pursuing this goal, the Local Government and Public
Liberty and the State
Charles K. Rowley
Издател: Edward Elgar
This is part of a four-volume set, an annual series dedicated to the work of John Locke. This volume deals with liberty and the state. The others cover rent seeking; classical liberalism, public choice and constitutional democracy; and property rights as a guarantor of liberty.
Parchment, Guns and Constitutional Order
Richard E. Wagner
Издател: Edward Elgar Publishing
In this far-reaching and insightful monograph, Richard Wagner exposes the failure of the United States constitution to overcome the tyranny of the majority so feared by the Founding Fathers.
A written constitution is enforceable mainly through the construction of a self-supporting balance of private interests. Using this insight, Professor
Kosovo Under International Administration
Alexandros Yannis
Издател: ELIAMEP
The destabilising potential of Kosovo remains largely intact. The underlying cause of the crisis has not yet been addressed. The Kosovo conflict is not a dispute over power or form of government. It is a dispute over control of territory: a contest between Yugoslavia's sovereignty and Kosovo's independence. The United Nations Interim
Estonia: Little Country that Could
Mart Laar
Издател: Centre for Research into Post Communist Economies - CRPCE
Because most comparative studies of post-communist transitions concentrate on only a handful of countries (Russia, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, and Hungary being the most common), little Estonia has largely escaped wider notice-many consider it the most successful of all thirty-two transitions.
Laar's account is probably the most extensive
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