The unanticipated and unsolicited Russian aggression in the Ukraine in February 2022 highlighted the urgency of updating general assumptions about post-communist countries. The war has revealed the inadequacy of the terms and concepts employed for western democracies for describing,...

The system we live under -- The disintegration of the third Hungarian republic in 2010 -- Approaches of interpretation : from the functional disorders of democracy to a critique of the system -- Definition of the post-communist mafia state -- Specific features of the mafia state : a subtype of...

This book offers a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that characterize post-communist regimes. Focusing on Central Europe, the post-Soviet countries and China, the study provides concepts and theories to analyze the actors, institutions, and dynamics of...

In the article the author suggests an attempt to analyze three Advocacy Coalitions Framework's rationales for solution free-rider problem. The Joint Drafting Procedure on the EU issues in the Swedish political system is a suitable case study for this article. The basic conclusions are following:...