Poland’s Emerging Party System

Under the pressure of compliance with the Maastricht convergence criteria governments implement painful welfare state reforms.

There has been surprisingly little celebration of the tenth anniversary of the revolutions that brought down communism. The exaggerated hopes of the time have given way to disillusionment, but the…

A number of countries in East-Central Europe are facing a grave crisis of constitutional democracy. As their governments seek to undermine the institutional limits on their power, constitutional courts have…