The author began working in Eastern Europe in connection with his project to study the impact of U.S. constitutionalism following the U.S. constitutional bicentennial in 1987. This led him to organize a conference on constitutionalism in Eastern Europe in 1990 and to collaborate in projects on the progress of constitutionalism in the region since that time. The question the author addresses is whether the constitutional promise apparent in 1989 and following has been fulfilled two decades later.
Irena Grudzinska-Gross, ed., Constitutionalism in East Central Europe: Discussions in Warsaw, Budapest, Prague, Bratislava (Bratislava, Slovakia: Czecho-Slovak Committee of the European Cultural Foundation, 1994).
