Eastern Europe a Decade Later: Geography and Democratic Destiny

Methods of electing legislatures are fraught with consequences for the shape and quality of democracy, and must balance a number of competing goals. Amid the current political ferment of the…

Law-based rule means a set of basic conditions that make civic life possible. A democratic rule of law requires all that and more, however.

Post-Soviet Russia's future may well turn on the interplay of state power with the business interests that now form Russia's best hope for advances in political pluralism.