Democratization of Eastern Europe
Political Reforms

Transition to democratic government
       how?
       what kinds of reforms needed?


Political Parties
    rules on forming
    who can run
    registering, etc.

Elections
   
Constitution writing


Creating pluralism
    reviving civil society
    treatment of ethnic groups
    Stokes calls ethnic relations the "third shoe"
       legally
        de jure discrimination gone but

       socially
          de facto discrimination still exists

What minorities are there?
    Groups separated from the rest of their national group by political         boundaries
   
    Jews
       Israeli government site on Jewish population worldwide

       anti-Semitism in CE Europe today
       FAIR story
       Roth Institute Reports

       most pronounced in Poland, Russia
       more tolerant in Hungary

       social acceptability of anti-semitic remarks
       violence

    Roma
      
       Holocaust Encyclopedia Site on Roma
        
      
    
       
      
       Report by British Human Rights Office on Slovakia
       UNDP Report on Roma in Europe
          includes a section on political representation

       Tomasz Tomaszewski Photos from National Geographic