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Since autumn, 1991 the New Democracies Barometer (NDB) has conducted nationwide sample surveys annually across Central and Eastern Europe. In each of ten countries--Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Belarus and Ukraine--about one thousand respondents are interviewed face-to-face about economic, political and social attitudes and behaviour. Because the same questions are asked in each country and repeated from year to year, trends can be analyzed across a wide variety of post-Communist societies. This paper presents a systematic analysis across these societies of key political and economic trends from 1991 to the fifth NDB survey in 1998, based on more than 45,000 interviews.
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