The following three chapters conduct statistical analyses of the three linkages at the heart of democratic quality. Each chapter considers a single linkage in ten Eastern European countries over approximately the first fifteen years of the transition. The countries are Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. They were chosen because they represent the most consistent democratic experience in the region. The goal of these analyses is to determine if citizens exercise control over their rulers in the region as a whole. The results should thus be seen as average effects or the typical degree of popular control of policy makers through each of the three linkages. Indeed, producing unbiased estimates of average effects is the main advantage of large-N analysis. Consideration of the substance and mechanisms of these effects is reserved for the case studies in Part III.