John Dryzek is Professor of Social and Political Theory in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. He has also taught at the Universities of Oregon and Melbourne. He is the author of a number of books on environmental politics and democracy, most recently Deliberative Democracy and Beyond (2000), and Democracy in Capitalist Times (1996).
Part I. Introductory: 1. The discourses of democratic transition
2. Methodology
Part II. Pre-Transition Countries: 3. China
4. Yugoslavia
Part III. Halting Transitions: 5. Belarus
6. Russia
7. Ukraine
Part IV. Transition Torn by War: 8. Armenia
9. Georgia
10. Moldova
Part V. Late Developers: 11. Slovakia
12. Romania
13. Bulgaria
Part VI. Trailblazers: 14. Poland
15. Czechia
Part VII. Conclusions: 16. Differences that matter - and those that do not.
