Political Parties After Communism

Author : Herbert Kitschelt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521658904
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-Communist Party Systems written by Herbert Kitschelt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-13 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines democratic party competition in four post-communist polities in the 1990s. The work illustrates developments regarding different voter appeal of parties, patterns of voter representation, and dispositions to join other parties in alliances. Wider groups of countries are also compared.

Author : Seán Hanley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000143201
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Centre-Right Parties in Post-Communist East-Central Europe written by Seán Hanley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to cover the centre-right in post-communist Eastern Europe. It makes an vital contribution to the broader research agenda on the Central and East European centre-right by focusing on one specific question: why strong and cohesive centre-right formations have developed in some post-communist states, but not others. It also delves into the attempts to develop centre-right parties after 1989 in four nations: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The authors of these fresh case studies use a common analytical framework to analyse and provide fascinating insights into the varying levels of cohesion in centre-right parties across the region. This volume was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics.

Author : Vesselin Dimitrov
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742540095
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governing After Communism written by Vesselin Dimitrov and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely comparative analysis explores the evolution of governance in Central and Eastern Europe. The book considers post-communist leaders' key challenge: the development of central government institutions capable of coordinating, integrating, and steering the policymaking process. Building on a broad range of primary sources and extensive field research, the distinguished authors analyze the processes and outcomes of institution-building in Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Bulgaria since the late 1980s. They examine in detail the organization and inner workings of central executives; explain differences in executive trajectories across time and countries by considering the influence of institutional legacies, the impact of evolving party systems, and the role of crises in spurring institutional change; and show the effects of executive institutions on patterns of public policy, especially the budgetary process. Through a rigorous application of the core-executive framework, this study offers nuanced conceptual and analytical insights that will enhance understanding of both the evolving institutions of Central and Eastern Europe and the more stable West European systems. The in-depth analysis of the development of national executive institutions casts a distinctive new light on debates about EU enlargement, Europeanization, and patterns of governance.

Author : Gordon Wightman
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781781959305
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Party Formation in East--Central Europe written by Gordon Wightman and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '. . . a welcome addition to our stock of knowledge regarding the process of democratization. . . . the real value of the book lies in the empirical details and occasional suggestive comparisons rather than in a consistently convincing conceptual rendering of the opening pages of the new chapter in East-Central European history.' - Frank A. Kunz, Canadian Journal of Political Science 'Party Formation in East-Central Europe is an excellent book. It is encouraging that many of the articles were written by scholars who are of Eastern European origins and live in the area.' - Ann Griffiths, International Insights Party Formation in East-Central Europe is one of the first books to present detailed studies of politics in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Bulgaria during the initial three years of post-communist rule.

Author : Tomáš Kostelecký
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Parties After Communism written by Tomáš Kostelecký and published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After forty years of one-party rule under communist regimes, how were the countries of East-Central Europe to get back to the business of competitive politics in 1989? One key factor was the resumption of party politics, and this book reviews the postcommunist development of political parties in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary. Tomáš Kostelecký describes party history up to 1947—some earlier parties were resurrected in 1989—and then covers the communist and postcommunist periods. Historical, cultural, and social factors in party development are all taken into account in this synthetic work. The core of the work studies three crucial factors: historical and cultural factors, social cleavages, and electoral rules. In general Kostelecký sees a move toward more organized political parties, greater rational choice and self-interest in voters' decisions, and better structured, stabler politics. In other words, East-Central European politics is transforming itself from simply a reaction against the politics of the preceding regime to a situation in which diverse groups in society will find their interests institutionalized in diverse political parties, not unlike the politics of Western Europe.

Author : Petr Kopecký
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Parties and the State in Post-communist Europe written by Petr Kopecký and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2008 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published as a special issue of The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, this volume analyzes the party-state linkages in post-communist Europe alongside three analytical dimensions.

Author : Luke March
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719060441
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Communist Party in Post-Soviet Russia written by Luke March and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering analysis uses the results from the first ever Irish election study to provide a comprehensive survey of the motives, outlook and behaviour of voters in the Republic of Ireland. Building on the foundations laid down by previous work on comparative electoral behaviour, it explores long-term influences on vote choice, such as party loyalties and enduring values, as well as short-term ones, such as the economy, the party leaders and the candidates themselves. It also examines how people use their vote and why so many people do not vote at all.Many features of Irish elections make such a detailed study particularly important. The single transferable vote system allows voters an unusual degree of freedom to pick the candidates they prefer, while electoral trends observed elsewhere can be found in a more extreme form in Ireland. For example, attachment to parties is very low, differences between them are often obscure, candidate profiles are very high and turnout is falling rapidly. However, Irish elections defy international trends in other respects, most notably in the degree of personal contact parties and candidates make with their voters. Findings are presented in a manner that is highly accessible to anyone with an interest in elections, electoral systems and electoral behaviour. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in Irish politics and is an important text for students of European Politics, Parties and Elections, Comparative Politics and Political Sociology.

Author : F. Millard
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023000086X
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elections, Parties and Representation in Post-Communist Europe written by F. Millard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-04-06 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elections, Parties and Representation in Post-Communist Europe 1990-2002 stresses the ways in which the development of political parties affected the quality of democracy, the nature of political representation, and political accountability in the early stages of post-communist politics. It also analyzes the nature and consequences of the corpus of parliamentary candidates and deputies for the representation of social classes, women and minorities. In contrast with the wide social profile of communist parliaments, politics largely became the playground of new highly educated male elites.

Author : Donald R. Kelley
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610750080
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Communism: Perspectives on Democracy (p) written by Donald R. Kelley and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Milada Anna Vachudova
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191608211
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Europe Undivided written by Milada Anna Vachudova and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe Undivided analyzes how an enlarging EU has facilitated a convergence toward liberal democracy among credible future members of the EU in Central and Eastern Europe. It reveals how variations in domestic competition put democratizing states on different political trajectories after 1989, and how the EU's leverage eventually influenced domestic politics in liberal and particularly illiberal democracies. In doing so, Europe Undivided illuminates the changing dynamics of the relationship between the EU and candidate states from 1989 to 2004, and challenges policymakers to manage and improve EU leverage to support democracy, ethnic tolerance, and economic reform in other candidates and proto-candidates such as the Western Balkan states, Turkey, and Ukraine. Albeit not by design, the most powerful and successful tool of EU foreign policy has turned out to be EU enlargement - and this book helps us understand why, and how, it works.