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Europe: November 2004

The Unbearable Lightness of Democracy: Poland and Romania after Communism

By: Alina Mungiu-Pippidi

Description: "Although the publics in Poland and Romania believe there are more similarities than differences in the quality of their lives after communism, external observers argue that Poland's democracy is qualitatively better than Romania's. The challenge is to explain why there is this difference when both countries are consolidated democracies inhabited by unsatisfied...democrats."

Volume: 103
Issue: 676
Page: 383

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