Alfio Cerami is Research Associate at the Center for European Studies of Sciences Po, Paris. His research concentrates on the ways how political, economic and social transformations influence the process of democratization and of consolidation of democratic institutions in transition and developing countries. He is the author of Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe (Berlin: LIT Verlag) and Post-Communist Welfare Pathways (together with P. Vanhuysse) (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan). You can follow Alfio Cerami’s research news on Twitter (http://twitter.com/acerami).