Preface

Part 1: Political Transformations in Russia
Chapter 1: From the CC CPSU to Russian Presidency: The Development of Semi-Presidentialism in Russia . . 3
Chapter 2: Subjects or Citizens: Obstacles to the Exercise of Constitutional Sovereignty Rights in Contemporary Russia . . 27

Part 2: Economic Transformations of Communist and Post-Communist Countries
Chapter 3: Post-Socialist States and the Evolution of a New Develooment Model: Russia and China Compared . . 49
Chapter 4: EU Inteqration and the "Backwardness" of New Member States: The Case of Romania and Bulgaria . . 73

Part 3: Welfare Transformations of Central and Eastern Europe
Chapters 5: Welfare State Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe . . 99
Chapter 6: Welfare State Institutions and Welfare Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: The Political Background to Institutional Diversity . . 145

List of Contributors . . 179
Program of the Symposium . . 180