Embodying Democracy

Sarah Birch is the author of "Elections and Democratization in Ukraine". Frances Millard has written "Polish Politics and Society" and "The Anatomy of the New Poland". Kieran Williams is the author of "The Prague Spring and its Aftermath: Czechoslovak Politics, 1968-1970 and co-author (with Dennis Deletant) of "Security Intelligence Services in New Democracies: The Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania".

Embodying Democracy analyzes the politics of electoral reform in eight post-communist states including Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia and Ukraine.Embodying Democracy analyzes the politics of electoral reform in eight post-communist states including Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia and Ukraine. By exploring the multiple factors that shaped the design of electoral institutions during the first ten years of post-communist transition, it accounts for an important element of the post-communist reform process and illuminates general features of institutional design in post-transition states.