Problems of Postcommunism: The Battle of the Trade Unions

The Editors’ introduction to the Journal of Democracy‘s special issue marking the fiftieth anniversary of Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy by Joseph Schumpeter.

The Chinese state has become more efficient, constrained, and responsive—improvements that could lay a base for a successful transition.

During the 1990s, politics in the small post-Soviet state of Moldova was more competitive than anyone would have expected. Yet there was less to this surprising pluralism than met the…