... The Regents of the University of California Communism Democratic consolidation Lithuanian politics Party system Path dependence Successor parties Transition The case of Lithuania 1996 and 2001 to the present. A major reason for the party s success is that it took an * Corresponding author...

... an interval measure of presidential power as opposed to previously used categorical measures of presidentialism; (3) testing the relationships between institutions and democratic consolidation using multivariate rather than bivariate analytical techniques. In sum, the evidence suggested that the electoral...