Institutional development in new and potential member countries determines the success of both the catching-up of developing European countries and the deepening of the European integration process. This paper argues that the timing of future enlargement should depend on institutional...

Ungarn hat auf dem Gebiet der Rechtsreform und der Etablierung eines privaten Sektors in Mittel- und Osteuropa eine Vorreiterrolle gespielt. Die Verfasser geben einen umfassenden Überblick über die Umgestaltung und den Neuaufbau des Rechtssystems in Ungarn. Im Zentrum des Interesses stehen die...

A significant number of gender scholars focus on the substantive effects of women's representation. A good portion of this literature focuses on whether female legislators behave in ways that foster women's representation. We argue one area that needs more research is to understand the...

This paper examines the decision by the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada to introduce a pure proportional representation system for the 2006 legislative election. I argue that both office-seeking and policy-seeking explanations cannot account for this change. Instead, we need to understand how the...