Introduction: Explaining regime change in the Yugoslav successor states -- Post-communist diversity -- Characterizing regime type -- The development of disparity -- Simulated democracy : Croatia's transition in the 1990s -- Simulated democracy : Slovenia's transition in the 1990s -- Illegitimate democracy : Macedonia's transition in the 1990s -- Populist authoritarianism : the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's transition in the 1990s -- The Yugoslav successor states in the new millenium -- Conclusions