%0 Journal Article %T Models of Political Changes in the Region of Central and Eastern Europe %A Wojnicki, Jacek %J Central European and Balkan Studies %V 2021 %R 10.4467/2543733XSSB.21.007.13800 %N Tom XXX %P 79-82 %K transition, transformation, democratization, Central and Eastern Europe, political pluralism %@ 2451-4993 %D 2021 %U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/ssb/article/modele-przemian-politycznych-w-regionie-europy-srodkowej-i-wschodniej %X The article discusses the issues of transformation processes in Central and Eastern Europe. The analysis took many factors into account: geographical, historical, political, political, social and economic. Internal and external premises decided about the course of political and political changes initiated at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s. Classical political theories about the Transition to democracy were included. A research hypothesis was put forward that the traditions of democratic political institutions have a positive impact on the pace and extent of consolidation of the democratic system.