Seminar 1. Transition to Democracy: The communist legacy. Kinds of communism in Eastern and Southeastern Europe: patrimonial, national adaptive and bureaucratic authoritarian.

Mark Kramer, (2009) "Stalin, Soviet Policy and the Consolidation of a Communist Bloc in Eastern Europe, 1944-1953", In Vl. Tismaneanu, ed., Stalinism Revisited: The Establishment of Communist Regimes in East-Central Europe, Budapest, Central European University Press, pp. 51-101. PDF

• Daniel Chirot, (1990), "What happened in Eastern Europe in 1989", Praxis International, 3-4, pp. 278-305, Google Scholar

• Toole James (2007), "The Historical Foundations of Party Politics in Post- Communist East Central Europe", Europe-Asia Studies, 59(4): 541-566. Jstor.org.

• Grigore Pop-Eleches, (2007), "Historical Legacies and Post-Communist regime change", The journal of Politics, 69(4): 908-926. Jstor.org

Seminar 2. Party origins and party development: the process of party formation in eastern Europe. The first/ founding election.

Elzbieta Matinya, (2000),"Furnishing Democracy at the end of Century: The Polish Round Table and Others", East European Politics and Societies, 15(2): 454-471. PDF
Paul Lewis, (1997), "Theories of Democratization and patterns of regime change in eastern Europe", Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 13: 20-1. Google scholar
Michael McFaul, (2002) "The Fourth Wave of Democracy and Dictatorship: Noncooperative transitions in the Post-communist World", World Politics, 54: 212-244. Jstor.org

Seminar 3. Parties, elections and ideological trends. Conditions for competitive elections. The four phase of electoral development. Party families in eastern Europe.

Cas Mudde, (2005) "Racist Extremism in Central and Eastern Europe", East European Politics and societies, 19(2): 169-184. PDF
Daniel F. Ziblatt, (1998), The adaptation of Ex-Communist Parties to Post Communist East Central Europe: a Comparative Study of the East German and Hungarian Ex-Communist Parties, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 31(2): 119-137. Google Scholar
Aleks Szczerbiak, (2001), "The Polish Peasant Party: a Mass Party in Post communist Eastern Europe", East European Politics and Societies, 15: 554-588. Google Scholar

Seminar 4. Party organization in Eastern Europe. East European Politics and the modern party. Party membership . Party Finance and relations with the Media.

Zsolt Enyedi and Lukás Linek, (2008), "Searching for the Right Organization: Ideology and Party Structure in East-Central Europe", Party Politics, 14(4): 455-477. Google Scholar.
Maria Spirova, (2005), "Political Parties in Bulgaria: Organizational Trends in Comparative perspective", Party Politics, 11(5): 601-622. Google Scholar
John Ishiyama, (1999), "The Communist Successor Parties and Party Organizational Development in Post-Communist Politics", Political Research Quarterly, 52(1): 87-112. Google Scholar.
Paul Lewis, (1994), "Political Institutionalisation and Party Development in Post-Communist Poland", Europe-Asia Studies, 46(5): 779-799. Google Scholar

Seminar 5: Party Systems in Eastern Europe. Conclusions.

David Olson, (1998) "Party Formation and Party System consolidation in the New Democracies of Central Europe", Political Studies, 46(3): 432-464. Jstor.org
John Ishiyama, (1997) "Transitional Electoral Systems in Post-Communist Eastern Europe", Political Science Quarterly, 112(1): 95-115. Jstor.org