Richard D. Anderson, Jr., is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is also active in Communication Studies. He is the author of Public Politics in an Authoritarian State: Making Foreign Policy in the Brezhnev Years. M. Steven Fish is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Democracy from Scratch: Opposition and Regime in the New Russian Revolution (Princeton). Stephen E. Hanson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington and Director of the Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies Program of the Jackson School of International Studies. He is the author of Time and Revolution: Marxism and the Design of Soviet Institutions and coeditor of Can Europe Work? Germany and the Reconstruction of Postcommunist Societies. Philip G. Roeder is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Red Sunset: The Failure of Soviet Politics (Princeton).

"This work will be central to anyone studying the region and democratization in general."--Choice

• CONTRIBUTORS vii LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi ONE: Introduction by George W. Breslauer 1 TWO: The Rejection of Authoritarianism by Philip G. Roeder 11 THREE: The Dynamics of Democratic Erosion by M. Steven Fish 54 FOUR: The Discursive Origins of Russian Democratic Politics by Richard D. Anderson, Jr. 96 FIVE: Defining Democratic Consolidation by Stephen E. Hanson 126 SIX: Conclusion: Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy by Richard D. Anderson, Jr., M. Steven Fish, Stephen E. Hanson, and Philip G. Roeder, 152 NOTES 169 REFERENCES 175 INDEX 197

Richard D. Anderson, Jr., is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is also active in Communication Studies. He is the author of Public Politics in an Authoritarian State: Making Foreign Policy in the Brezhnev Years. M. Steven Fish is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Democracy from Scratch: Opposition and Regime in the New Russian Revolution (Princeton). Stephen E. Hanson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington and Director of the Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies Program of the Jackson School of International Studies. He is the author of Time and Revolution: Marxism and the Design of Soviet Institutions and coeditor of Can Europe Work? Germany and the Reconstruction of Postcommunist Societies. Philip G. Roeder is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Red Sunset: The Failure of Soviet Politics (Princeton).

"This work will be central to anyone studying the region and democratization in general."--Choice

• CONTRIBUTORS vii LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi ONE: Introduction by George W. Breslauer 1 TWO: The Rejection of Authoritarianism by Philip G. Roeder 11 THREE: The Dynamics of Democratic Erosion by M. Steven Fish 54 FOUR: The Discursive Origins of Russian Democratic Politics by Richard D. Anderson, Jr. 96 FIVE: Defining Democratic Consolidation by Stephen E. Hanson 126 SIX: Conclusion: Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy by Richard D. Anderson, Jr., M. Steven Fish, Stephen E. Hanson, and Philip G. Roeder, 152 NOTES 169 REFERENCES 175 INDEX 197

Richard D. Anderson, Jr., is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is also active in Communication Studies. He is the author of Public Politics in an Authoritarian State: Making Foreign Policy in the Brezhnev Years. M. Steven Fish is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Democracy from Scratch: Opposition and Regime in the New Russian Revolution (Princeton). Stephen E. Hanson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington and Director of the Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies Program of the Jackson School of International Studies. He is the author of Time and Revolution: Marxism and the Design of Soviet Institutions and coeditor of Can Europe Work? Germany and the Reconstruction of Postcommunist Societies. Philip G. Roeder is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Red Sunset: The Failure of Soviet Politics (Princeton).

"This work will be central to anyone studying the region and democratization in general."--Choice

• CONTRIBUTORS vii LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi ONE: Introduction by George W. Breslauer 1 TWO: The Rejection of Authoritarianism by Philip G. Roeder 11 THREE: The Dynamics of Democratic Erosion by M. Steven Fish 54 FOUR: The Discursive Origins of Russian Democratic Politics by Richard D. Anderson, Jr. 96 FIVE: Defining Democratic Consolidation by Stephen E. Hanson 126 SIX: Conclusion: Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy by Richard D. Anderson, Jr., M. Steven Fish, Stephen E. Hanson, and Philip G. Roeder, 152 NOTES 169 REFERENCES 175 INDEX 197