Church, State, and Democracy in Expanding Europe - Stan, Lavinia (Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Post-Communist Studies, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Post-Communist Studies, St. Francis Xavier University) a Turcescu, Lucian

Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu examine the relationship between religion and politics in ten former communist Eastern European countries, showing church-state relations in the new EU member states through study of political representation for church leaders, governmental subsidies, registration of religions by the state, and religious instruction in public schools.