Book cover of Defeating Authoritarian Leaders in Postcommunist Countries by Valerie Bunce and Sharon Wolchik

Defeating Authoritarian Leaders in Postcommunist Countries

Valerie Bunce and Sharon Wolchik

Valerie Bunce and Sharon Wolchik compare the electoral revolutions that toppled or challenged authoritarian leaders in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, from Slovakia and Serbia to Georgia and Ukraine. They show how oppositions learned from one another and why the same model succeeded in some countries and failed in others.

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Adam Roberts

Emeritus Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford

All of those. Also elections in Croatia and Slovakia, where there were no great public campaigns afterwards because the results of those elections were more or less observed. The authors, Valerie Bunce and Sharon Wolchik, look at quite a wide variety of cases between 1998 and 2005.

Interview · December 2011

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