Subversive Institutions: The Design and the Destruction of Socialism and the State(Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

Based on a series of controlled comparisons among regimes and states, Valerie Bunce's book argues that two factors account for the remarkable collapse of the socialist dictatorships in Europe from 1989-1992: the institutional design of socialism as a regime, a state and a bloc, and the rapid expansion during the 1980s of opportunities for domestic and international change. Together, these two fact