Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Transitions to Democracy: Purposive Action or Structural Determination? -- 3 Institutions and Organizations: Constraints on Purposive Action to "Create" Democracy -- 4 Of Legacies and Opportunities: Media Control Before 1989 -- 5 From Czechoslovakia to Slovakia and the Czech Republic: The Media and the Ties that Still Bind -- 6 Hungary: Political Parties Vie for Media Control -- 7 Poland: Media Control in the Name of God and Country -- 8 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index