POL 246 - Post-Communism and New Democracies

(SOAN 246) FDR: SS4 as sociology only
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall 2014 and alternate years

A comparative analysis of transition from Communism in the countries of the former Soviet bloc. Cases of successful and unsuccessful transitions to civil society, pluralist democracy, and market economy are examined. The comparative framework includes analysis of transition from non-Communist authoritarianism and democratic consolidation in selected countries of Latin America, the Mediterranean, Southeast Asia, and South Africa. Jasiewicz.