Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Part I. Institutional Engineering in a Comparative Perspective -- 1. Institutional Engineering and Transition to Democracy -- 2. Constitutions and Constitution-Building: A Comparative Perspective -- 3. Constitutional Design and Problems of Implementation in Southern and Eastern Europe -- Part II. Institutional Engineering in a National Perspective -- 4. Estonia: Positive and Negative Institutional Engineering -- 5. Rebuilding Democracy in Latvia: Overcoming a Dual Legacy.
13. Slovakia: From the Ambiguous Constitution to the Dominance of Informal Rules -- 14. Slovenia: From Elite Consensus to Democratic Consolidation -- 15. Hungary's Pliable Constitution -- 16. Legitimacy: The Price of a Delayed Constitution in Poland -- 17. Conclusions: On the Relevance of Institutions and the Centrality of Constitutions in Post-communist Transitions -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
6. Institutional Engineering in Lithuania: Stability through Compromise -- 7. Bulgaria: The (Ir)Relevance of Post-communist Constitutionalism -- 8. Constitutionalism as a Vehicle for Democratic Consolidation in Romania -- 9. Ukraine: Tormented Constitution-Making -- 10. Power Imbalance and Institutional Interests in Russian Constitutional Engineering -- 11. Constitutionalism in Belarus: A False Start -- 12. The Czech Republic: From the Burden of the Old Federal Constitution to the Constitutional Horse Trading among Political Parties.
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This collection of papers is part of a series on democratic consolidation in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe. This first volume analyses constraints on and the opportunities provided by institutional engineering.
Democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe. Vol. 1, Institutional engineering.