Democratization in Eastern Europe : domestic and international perspectives / edited by Geoffrey Pridham and Tatu Vanhanen.

Introduction / Geoffrey Pridham and Tatu Vanhanen -- 1. Democratic transitions in theory and practice: Southern European lessons for Eastern Europe / Geoffrey Pridham -- 2. Groups, parties and political change in Eastern Europe from 1977 / Michael Waller -- 3. Predicting and explaining democratization in Eastern Europe / Tatu Vanhanen and Richard Kimber -- 4. Building party systems after the dictatorship: the East European cases in a comparative perspective / Maurizio Cotta -- 5. The founding electoral systems in Eastern Europe, 1989-91 / Kimmo Kuusela -- 6. The emergence of multi-party systems in East-Central Europe: a comparative analysis / Paul Lewis, Bill Lomax and Gordon Wightman -- 7. The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1988-9: interactions between domestic change and foreign policy / Tomas Niklasson -- 8. Democratization in Eastern Europe: the external dimension / Adrian G. V. Hyde-Price -- 9. Conclusion / Geoffrey Pridham and Tatu Vanhanen.