Continuity in transition theory, Jeffrey Huffman and Mary Gautier; the transition to democracy and civil society, democratic transitions - puzzles and surprises from West to East, Guiesppe Di Palma; prospects and dilemmas of the transition to a market economy in East Central Europe, Grzegorz Ekiert; institutions of civil society in the transition to democracy, the civil society paradox and the media in Central and Eastern Europe, Slavko Splichal; contribution of the Reformed churches to the fall of communism in Hungary and Romania, Joseph Pungur; changing political values and the transition to democracy, the Polish conflict of the 1980s as a challenge for systemic transformations, Wladyslaw Admski; the attitude of people in Poland toward politics and authority at the time of political change, Stanislaw Kwiatkowski; values, politics and the ideologies of reform - Poland in transition, Barbara Heyns and Aleksandra Jasinska-Kania; the development of democratic attitudes in Eastern and Western Germany in a comparative perspective, Frederick Weil; democratic legitimation in Bulgaria, Ognian Shentov and Mois Fayon; support for rights in Western Europe and the Soviet Union - an analysis of the belief of mass publics, James L. Gibson and Raymond M. Duch; an end and a beginning of democracy in Germany, political breakdown and the process of national consensus formation - on the collapse of the Weimar Republic in a comparative perspective, Ekkart Zimmermann; change and the transition of the East German political system - a chronicle, Gero Neugebauer; nationalism and the future of democracy, nationalism and democracy - the nature of the relationship and the cases of England, France and Russia, Liah Greenfield; East European, Soviet and post-Soviet nationalism - a framework for analysis, Rogers Brubaker.