Interpersonal trust in post-communist societies is particularly low, and is often cited as an
impediment to democratic consolidation. One way in which countries in Central and Eastern …

The concept of" elite consensus" is pivotal to the work of John Higley and his associates, but
like many key political concepts its meaning is not precise. Consensus implies broad …

Do radical anticorruption measures such as lustration reduce corruption by systematically
limiting the political participation of former authoritarian actors? While research has largely …

Poland's post-war history is characterized by extensive state surveillance, first during the
communist regime, then in the current democratic one. That surveillance before 1989 was …

Centred around three general claims–that law and collective memory influence each other,
in particular through the legal institutions of memory, that these intersections are heavily …

The chapter discusses how Poland dealt with its communist past. In the first decade after
1989, this was not a priority but at the end of the 1990s, the Polish Parliament established …

While Poles generally supported a radical approach towards truth revelation, on its own the
issue did not appear to be especially salient. Poles wanted to move on from debates about …

Traditional frameworks for assessing policy implementation have been developed almost
exclusively in the context of market‐based, pluralist democracies. This research explores …

In transitions from authoritarian regimes, justice has normally encompassed a variety of
approaches, from amnesty to public trials. The oddity about the post-communist world is that …

Scholars studying the electoral breakthroughs of right-wing illiberalism have arrived at two
general conclusions: while they largely rejected the hypothesis that this phenomenon is …