Politics and citizenship on the Eastern Baltic seaboard : the structuring of democratic politics from North-West Russia to Poland

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Politics and Citizenship on the Eastern Baltic Seaboard The purpose of this reader is to provide undergraduate students with systematic information about the new political systems around the eastern Baltic seaboard and Northwest Russia. Our aim is to enable students to gain access to information on par with the extensive literature already existing on the politics of Scandinavia and Western Europe. The book begins with an overview of some of the main theories of regime transition and democratic consolidation in order to establish a common conceptual framework for the reader. The first half of the book contains chapters for each of the political entities from Russia in the north to Poland in the southwest. It has been our aim to standardise these chapters as much as possible and differences between these exiting new democracies.