Author: Stephen Holmes | Journal of Democracy

Stephen Holmes is the Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law at New York University.

July 2018, Volume 29, Issue 3

Explaining Eastern Europe: Imitation and Its Discontents

Ivan Krastev
Stephen Holmes

For countries emerging from communism, the post-1989 imperative to “be like the West” has generated discontent and even a “return of the repressed,” as the region feels old nationalist stirrings and new demographic pressures.

July 2012, Volume 23, Issue 3

Putinism Under Siege: An Autopsy of Managed Democracy

Ivan Krastev
Stephen Holmes

Although they have quieted down as quickly as they flared up, the clamorous protests that followed the dishonest Russian legislative elections in December 2011 have essentially destroyed Putin’s regime, the infamous “managed democracy.”