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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
THE HELPING HAND: The Role of the EU in the Democratization of Post-Communist Europe
Two decades after the collapse of communism, there are major differences in the extent of democratization within the Iron Curtain countries. Aware of the complex mechanism to trace possible causes for such a variation, this study uses qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to test the influence of nine international and domestic...
