Contents: Introduction. The Political Culture Approach and Democratization: Culture as destiny, Lucian W. Pye; Political culture and democratization: the Russian case in comparative perspective, Archie Brown. New Democracies in the Process of Consolidation: Political culture in East-Central and Eastern Europe: empirical findings 1990-2001, Peter A. Ulram and Fritz Plasser; Learning democracy: do democratic values adjust to new institutions?, Robert Rohrschneider; Interest in politics and the political culture approach: the case of the new democracies of Southern and Eastern Europe, Irene MartA-n; Persistance of the democracies in Central and Eastern Europe: consolidation, stability and people's power of resisting, JArg Jacobs, Olaf MA1/4ller and Gert Pickel; Satisfaction with democracy and its sources: the case of East Germany and Hungary, Jan Delhey and Verena Tobsch. Change of Values: Transformation and polarization: attitudes towards equality and achievement and the search for losers and winners of the East German transformation 1990-1995, Heiner Meulemann; 'A ber sieben BrA1/4cken muAYt Du gehen...': life worlds as places of socialization and biographical transformation work: a plea for the co-operation between quantitative and qualitative transformation research, Anna Schwarz; Values, small life worlds and communitarian orientations: ambivalent legacies and democratic potentials in post-communist political cultures, Gerd Meyer; Political culture in post-communist Europe: radical cultural change or adaptation on the basis of old cultural patterns?, Ivan Bernik and Brina Malnar; Solidarity, justice and social change: Germany's ten years of unification, Bernd Wegener. Conclusion: On culture, thick and thin: toward a neo-cultural synthesis, William Mishler and Detlef Pollack; Index.