Civil Society Strength at Regime Termination and Inequality in Post-communist Eurasia

Special SSEES Guest Lecture by Professor Michael Bernhard (University of Florida)

In his lecture which draws on a paper co-authored with Dong-Joon Jung, Professor Bernhard argues that the strength of civil society at the point of extrication from communism is a powerful predictor of how “liberal democratic” post-communist regimes become.