Author: J. Hughes

JAMES HUGHES is Reader in Comparative and East European Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He taught at the universities of Surrey, Trinity College Dublin, and Keele before joining the Department of Government at LSE in 1994. He was a Nuffield Social Science Fellow (1994-5) and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence (2001-02). GWENDOLYN SASSE is Lecturer in East European Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. She taught at the Central European University before joining the European Institute at LSE in 1999. Since 2002 she is based both in the European Institute and in the Department of Government. Her Ph D was awarded the LSE Robert Mc Kenzie Prize. CLAIRE GORDON is Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.