Capitalism and democracy in Central and Eastern Europe : assessing the legacy of Communist rule / edited by Grzegorz Ekiert, Stephen E. Hanson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Time, space, and institutional change in central and Eastern Europe / Grzegorz Ekiert and Stephen E. Hanson -- Accounting for postcommunist regime diversity: what counts as a good cause? / Herbert Kitschelt -- Patterns of postcommunist transformation in central and Eastern Europe / Grzegorz Ekiert -- Postcommunist spaces: a political geography approach to explaining postcommunist outcomes / Jeffrery S. Kopstein and David A. Reilly -- Redeeming the past: communist successor parties after 1989 -- Anna Grzymala-Busse -- Leninist legacies and legacies of state socialism in postcommunist central Europe's constitutional development / Allison Stanger -- Historical legacies, institutions, and the politics of social policy in Hungary and Poland, 1989-1999 / Thomasz Inglot -- Postcommunist unemployment politics: historical legacies and the curious acceptance of job loss / Phineas Baxandall -- "Past" dependence or path contingency? Institutional design in postcommunist financial systems / Juliet Johnson -- Cultural legacies of state socialism: history making and cultural-political entrepreneurship in postcommunist Poland Russia / Jan Kubik -- From area studies to contextualized comparisons / Paul Pierson.