About the contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction Grzegorz Ekiert and
Stephen E. Hanson; Part I. Postcommunist Transformations and the Role of
Historical Legacies: 1. Time, space and institutional change in central and
eastern Europe Grzegorz Ekiert and Stephen E. Hanson; 2. Accounting for
postcommunist regime diversity: what counts as a good cause? Herbert
Kitschelt; Part II. Postcommunist Europe: Continuity and Change in Regional
Patterns: 3. Patterns of postcommunist transformation in central and
eastern Europe Grzegorz Ekiert; 4. Postcommunist spaces: a political
geography approach to explaining postcommunist outcomes Jeffrey S. Kopstein
and David A. Reilly; Part III. Institutional Redesign and Historical
Legacies: Case Studies: 5. Redeeming the past: communist successor parties
after 1989 Anna Grzymala-Busse; 6. Leninist legacies and legacies of state
socialism in postcommunist central Europe's constitutional development
Allison Stanger; 7. Historical legacies, institutions and the politics of
social policy in Hungary and Poland, 1989-99 Tomasz Inglot; 8.
Postcommunist unemployment politics: historical legacies and the curious
acceptance of job loss Phineas Baxandall; 9. 'Past' dependence or path
contingency? Institutional design in postcommunist financial systems Juliet
Johnson; 10. Cultural legacies of state socialism: history making and
cultural-political entrepreneurship in postcommunist Poland and Russia Jan
Kubik; Epilogue: from area studies to contextualized comparisons Paul
Pierson; Index.
