Volume 6 Number 4

Fall 1997

Constitution Watch
     A country-by-country update on constitutional politics in Eastern Europe and the ex-USSR

Special Reports
     Peter H. Solomon, Jr. tracks the uneven progress of Russian court reform
     Kathleen Imholz exposes some faulty reasoning of the Albanian Constitutional Court
     Claus Offe rethinks the cultural obstacles to democratic and market reforms

Feature
Crime and Corruption after Communism

Introduction      State and Mafia in Yugoslavia      The Criminalization of Russia’s Political Elite      Interview with a Hungarian Police Investigator      Organized Crime in Bulgaria      Tales of Corruption from the Postcommunist Balkans      Public Theft in Early America and Contemporary Russia

Stephen Holmes Uros Komlenovic Virginie Coulloudon Andras Mink Jovo Nikolov Alina Mungiu-Pippidi Christian Lucky

Constitutional Reviews
     Reviews by David Woodruff and Stephen Kotkin

To and From the EECR
     Call for Papers
     Letters from Richard Pipes and Ken Jowitt
     From the editor’s desk

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These reports have been researched and written by the EECR affiliates and staff:

Arsen Bacic Noel Calhoun Miro Cerar Aurelian Craiutu Nenad Dimitrijevic Venelin I. Ganev Mark Gillis Kathleen Imholz Nathan Johnson

Vakhtang Khmaladze Rumyana Kolarova Ireneusz Kondak Andrei Kortunov Gunars Kusins Stevan Lilic Krenar Loloci Alexander Lukashuk Darina Malova

Tomasz Merta Victor Mouraviev Alina Mungiu-Pippidi Zaza Namoradze Vello Pettai Judit Revesz Gabor Rona Alison Rose Stanislav Shevchuk

Branko Smerdel Lavinia Stan Elena Stefoi-Sava David Usupashvili Virgus Valentinavicius