This book surveys the current state and recent development of political science in the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern European, from Albania and Armenia through Latvia and Lithuania to Slovenia and the Ukraine. Covering patterns of the discipline's institutionalization, achievements, and deficits in research and teaching, it comprises twenty country reports, three comparative overviews, and a chapter on the European Confederation of Political Science Associations. The twenty detailed and comparable country reports include: Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, and Ukraine. The three comparative overviews include: Political Science and Regime Change in East-Central Europe from the 20th to the 21st Century; Analytical and Normative Elements in Political Science Approaches: Is there a Specific Central-East European Pattern?; and Political Sc