Author: Stephen Holmes | Journal of Democracy

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

Articles by Stephen Holmes:

July 2018, Volume 29, Issue 3

Explaining Eastern Europe: Imitation and Its Discontents

Stephen Holmes
Ivan Krastev

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

Stephen Holmes
Ivan Krastev

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.”