Includes bibliographical references and index.

Democracy and democratisation in post-communist Europe / Andrew Roberts -- Belated transitions in South Eastern Europe / Florian Bieber -- Explaining Ukraine / Andrew Wilson -- Core executives in Central Europe / Martin Brusis -- Eastern Europe's semi-presidential regimes / Thomas Sedelius and Jenny Åberg -- Institutionalising parliaments in Central and Eastern Europe / Josephine T. Andrews -- Political parties and party organisations / Allan Sikk -- The rule of law / Martin Mendelski -- Bureaucracies in Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans / Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling -- Federalism in Eastern Europe during and after communism / James Hughes -- Elections and electoral participation / Sarah Birch -- Voters and parties in Eastern Europe / Zsolt Enyedi and Kevin Deegan Krause -- Social movements after communism / Ondrej Císar -- The study of protest politics in Eastern Europe in the search of theory / Grzegorz Ekiert and Jan Kubik -- Understanding ethnic minorities in Eastern Europe / Sherrill Stroschein -- The plight of Eastern Europe's Romas / Peter Vermeersch -- The representation of women / Frank C. Thames -- The struggle for LGBT rights / Conor O'Dwyer -- Politics at the fringes? : Eastern Europe's populists, racists and extremists / Cas Mudde -- Varieties of capitalism in Eastern Europe / Dorothee Bohle -- Dealing with the past : post-communist transitional justice / Vello Pettai and Eva-Clarita Pettai -- "The West, the East and the rest" : the foreign policy orientations of Central Eastern European countries / Elsa Tulmets -- Combatting corruption / Tatiana Kostadinova and Maria Spirova -- East European exceptionalism : foreign domination in finance / Rachel A. Epstein -- Enlargement and europeanisation in Central and Eastern Europe : accession and beyond / Antoaneta L. Dimitrova -- NATO enlargement and the post-communist states / Mark Webber -- Russia in the region / Richard Sakwa.