Public Opinion in New Democracies: Where Are Postcommunist Countries Going?

Independent central banks throughout the former Soviet Union suffer from a dual democratic deficit. How can they gain greater democratic legitimacy without compromising their countries' economic health?

Although his methods are hardly democratic, Putin’s efforts to strengthen the Russian state may help democracy in the long term.

The central problems now blocking democracy in Georgia and other parts of the former USSR are: 1) the use of power in order to gain wealth; 2) the absence of…