Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter One: Going Beyond Post-Communist Studies
  • Post-Communist Studies and Democratic Consolidation
  • Paradigms in Communist Studies
  • Democratic Consolidation
  • Democratic Consolidation's Research Agenda
  • Looking Ahead
  • Chapter Two: The Study of Post-Communist Politics
  • Stateness
  • Democracy and the Market
  • Bringing the State In
  • Strategic Choice and Post-Communist Studies
  • Path Dependency and Post-Communist Studies
  • Institutionalism and Post-Communist Studies
  • Contributions to the Agenda
  • What We Are Not Asking
  • Chapter Three: The Missing Agenda
  • Bringing Society Back In
  • The Distribution of "Democratic" Values
  • Civil Society
  • Social Movements
  • The Rule of Law
  • A Usable State Bureaucracy
  • Issue Areas Outside the Agenda of Democratic Consolidation
  • Principal-Agent Problems
  • Local Government
  • Institutional Development
  • What Is To Be Done?
  • Chapter Four: Reformulating Democratic Consolidation
  • Transition Theory
  • Toward a Theory of Consolidation
  • A Theory of Democratic Consolidation
  • Weakening and Increasing Competing Forces
  • Increasing Institutional Involvement
  • Further Explicating the Theory
  • Implications
  • Applying the Theory
  • Russia
  • Lithuania
  • Chapter Five: Imagining Post-Consolidation Studies
  • Fundamentals of Rational Choice
  • Spatial Analysis
  • The Median Voter Theorem
  • Legislative Roll-Call Vote Analysis
  • Legislative Committee Systems
  • Relations with a President
  • Presidential Vetoes
  • Presidential Appointments
  • The Courts as Political Players
  • Analysis of the Party System
  • Rules Matter
  • Principal-Agent Problems
  • Committee Systems
  • Legislative Oversight
  • Implications
  • Chapter Six: Further Extending the Post-Consolidation Agenda.
  • The Majority Cycling Problem
  • Legislative Agenda
  • Cabinet Formation
  • The Portfolio Allocation Model
  • Explaining Lithuanian Cabinet Formation, 2000-2001
  • Chapter Seven: Some Further Theoretical Considerations (with Jan Weiss)
  • Toward a Formal Model of an Unconsolidated Democracy
  • A Formal Model of Democratic Consolidation
  • A Concluding Word
  • Notes
  • A Short Bibliography of Rational-Choice Literature Arranged by Subject
  • Index.