...Jørgen Møller; Svend-Erik Skaaning In this article we order the 28 post-communist countries in a theoretically informed typology of political regime forms. Our theoretical expectation is that a hierarchy exists in the extent to which the post-communist countries fulfill democratic criteria...

... contribute to change. Instead, we can view the Soviet and post-Soviet regional dynamic as one that is on a fluid anarchy–hierarchy spectrum. © 2009 The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2009 The Regents of the University of California...