Wilson Center Experts

hypothesis: in the case of Russia’s regions, the significance of elite settlement is downplayed by a very low level of elite membership change in the country, which facilitates the emergence of non-democratically consensually unified elites, and under such conditions, the only available way towards competitive politics lies through the emergence of intra-elite conflicts centered around the problems of resource distribution or redistribution qualitative study of the processes of party system formation in Bulgaria, the Czech republic, Hungary, Poland, and Romania ideological evolution of the parties of extreme left and right in varying political contexts transofrmation of pro-democratic movements into competitive political parties