Explaining Post-Communist Founding Elections Results through Initial State Capacity

Coercive capacity and the durability of the Chinese communist state

Why has the Chinese communist state remained so durable in an age of democratization? Contrary to existing theories, this article argues that the strong state coercive capacity has survived the authoritarian rule in China. We demonstrate that the Chinese Communist Party has taken deliberate actions to enhance the cohesion of its coercive organizationsdthe police, in particulardby distributing “...

a Post - Communist Society

Elastic Initial and Post-local Buckling of Profiled through Girders

An experiment investigating the elastic local buckling response of trough girders composed of thin profiled steel sheeting has been undertaken Beam tests were performed to promote initial local buckling in a region of constant moment in the elastic range of structural response. The results of the experiments were compared with an elastic complex semi-analytical finite strip method of analysis, ...

~ornrn~~~st Social Structure and Post-Communist Elections: Voting for Reunificatian in East Germany

On March 18, 1990, the citizens of the GDR participated in the first competitive election in their country’s history. With a voter turnout of over 90 per cent the majority of the population delivered a stunning blow to the left and brought to power the first Christian Democratic-dominated government in the GDR. In voting conservative, though, the GDR electorate knowingly signed the death warran...

Explaining Voter Moderation In Post-Communist Ethnic Party Systems: A Cross-National Investigation in the Balkans

In this paper, I explore conditions that contribute to a rare outcome in ethnic party systems: the election of parties with moderate positions on interethnic relations. More specifically, I investigate why voters of the small, impoverished, and ethnically fragmented states of Bosnia and Macedonia, which share the same electoral system, chose parties with divergent positions on interethnic relat...