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Waves and troughs of democracy and dictatorship / Valerie Bunce, Michael McFaul and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss -- The missing variable : the international system as the link between third and fourth wave models of democratization / Michael McFaul -- A regional tradition : the diffusion of democratic change under communism and postcommunism / Valerie Bunce and Sharon Wolchik -- When Europeanization meets transformation : lessons from the unfinished eastern European revolutions / Alina Mungiu-Pippidi -- Democratization in postcommunist Europe : illiberal regimes and the leverage of the European Union / Milada Anna Vachudova -- A postcommunist transition in two acts : the 1996-7 antigovernment struggle in Bulgaria as a bridge between the 1989-92 and 1996-2007 democratization waves in eastern Europe / Tsveta Petrova -- Defining and domesticating the electoral model : a comparison of Slovakia and Serbia / Valerie Bunce and Sharon Wolchik -- Georgia's rose revolution : from regime weakness to regime collapse / Cory Welt -- Importing revolution : internal and external factors in Ukraine's 2004 democratic breakthrough / Michael McFaul -- Resistance to contagion : sources of authoritarian stability in the former Soviet Union / Lucan Way -- Comparing oranges and apples : the internal and external dimensions of Russia's turn away from democracy / Kathryn Stoner-Weiss -- Contagion deterred : preemptive authoritarianism in the former Soviet Union (the case of Belarus) / Vitali Silitski -- A horse of a different color : revolution and regression in Kyrgyzstan / Scott Radnitz -- The changing character of the global struggle for democracy / Valerie Bunce, Michael McFaul and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss.