Democracy and Enlargement in Post-Communist Europe presents the principal findings of a unique and in-depth study of the birth of democracy and the market economy in fifteen post-communist countries. Haerpfer analyses and compares the information collected by the New Democracies Barometer public opinion surveys to provide an overview of the process of democratization across Central and Eastern Europe.
This book investigates what the general public thought of a wide range of issues including:
* The European Union - enlargement and integration
* Communism and other non-democratic regimes
* Military integration into NATO and international security Issues
* Democratic processes, such as parliament
* Economic transformations and the market economy
This is an extremely valuable resource and will be useful for all those interested in the European Union, comparative politics and democracy and the communist legacy. It contains data from Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, the Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.