...Kláara Vlachová For decades, research on democracy has produced evidence that the peoples of countries in Central Europe are less satisfied with the way democracy works in their countries than people in Western Europe. Using the data from the European Social Survey (ESS) I explore, how satisfaction...

... Corruption Anti-Corruption agencies Rule of law Prosecutorial independence Europeanization Democratization Central Europe Balkans Regression analysis a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Available online 9 July 2018 Keywords: Corruption Anti-Corruption agencies Rule of law Prosecutorial...

... of the University of California Visegrad Central Europe Regional cooperation Western Balkans Eastern Partnership a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Available online 12 July 2013 Keywords: Visegrad Central Europe Regional cooperation Western Balkans Eastern Partnership 1 ly transition ones, lain...

... in the region, but the military dimension of the transatlantic relationship is transforming and will result in greater burdens on Europeans. Economic links between the U.S. and Central Europe are developing more strongly than generally understood, and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is likely...

...Kerry Longhurst The past 20 years have seen profound shifts in Polish foreign and security policy. Like other states in Central Europe Poland became part of the Euro-Atlantic sphere upon gaining first NATO and then EU membership. Despite such broad similarities, Poland’s trajectory since 1989 has...

... Central Europe Executive—legislative relations Government legislative control Political parties Legislative rules Radoslaw Zubek order ( Agh, 1994, 1995; Olson and Norton, 1996). Such initial overparliamentarisa- tion of Central European polities was fuelled, in part, by a relative incompetence...

... of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University of California Democratization Poland Foreign policy NATO/EU enlargement Central Europe Pan-European Organizations Communist and Post-Communist Studies 34 (2001) 339 352 Poland...