Machine generated contents note: 1.Innovation and Dynamism: Interaction between Systems and Technical Progress / Janos Kornai -- 2.The Demographic Transformation of Post-Socialist Countries: Causes, Consequences, and Questions / Elizabeth Brainerd -- 3.Reform and Inequality during the Transition: An Analysis Using Panel Household Survey Data, 1990-2005 / Lire Ersado -- 4.Twenty Years of Political Transition / Daniel Treisman -- 5.Into the Void: Governing Finance in Central and Eastern Europe / Katharina Pistor -- 6.The Long-Run Weight of Communism or the Weight of Long-Run History? / Gerard Roland -- 7.Misuse of Institutions: Lessons from Transition / Leonid Polishchuk -- 8.Civil Society, Institutional Change, and the Politics of Reform: The Great Transition / Gerard Roland -- 9.Twenty Years Later and the Socialist Heritage is Still Kicking: The Case of Russia / Gur Ofer -- 10.European Transition at Twenty: Assessing Progress in Countries and Sectors / Jeromin Zettelmeyer --

Contents note continued: 11.Transition, Structural Divergence, and Performance: Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union during 2000-7 / Giovanni Andrea Cornia -- 12.The Long Road to Normality: Where Russia Now Stands / Vladimir Popov -- 13.The Travails of Unification: East Germany's Economic Transition since 1989 / Charles S. Maier -- 14.Transition in Southeast Europe: Understanding Economic Development and Institutional Change / Milica Uvalic -- 15.Central Asia after Two Decades of Independence / Richard Pomfret.