ABSTRACT
The two preceding analyses of post-communist political pathways both exposed some striking empirical regularities. Not only was it possible to draw a very coherent picture of the causal pathways, it was possible to do so from both from an actor-centred and a structural point of view. In a nutshell, the most salient feature of post-communism seems to be the combination of intra-subregional similarities and inter-subregional differences incarnated by the respective polar types of Chapters 3 and 4. The question therefore becomes this: How do the actor-centred and structural variables relate to each other as wholes?
