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What is the relationship between the institutional choice and the success of economic reform in post-communist countries? To test the effects of institutions on political and economic transformations, I present pooled time-series cross-section data in 25 post-communist countries for 1994-2003. I find that post-communist countries with PR are associated with a high level of economic reform, and parliamentary systems are related to better democratic governments. Yet, other political variables, chief executives’ partisanship and check and balance do not have a statistically significant relationship either with democracy or economic reform.