Post-communist party systems: competition, representation, and inter-party cooperation
"Post-Communist Party Systems examines democratic party competition in four post-communist polities in the mid-1990s: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. Legacies of pre-communist rule turn out to play as much a role in accounting for differences as the institutional diversity incorporated in the new democratic rules of the game. The book demonstrates various developments within the four countries with regard to different voter appeal of parties, patterns of voter representation,…
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- Full title :Post-communist party systems : competition, representation, and inter-party cooperation / Herbert Kitschelt [and others].
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"Post-Communist Party Systems examines democratic party competition in four post-communist polities in the mid-1990s: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. Legacies of pre-communist rule turn out to play as much a role in accounting for differences as the institutional diversity incorporated in the new democratic rules of the game. The book demonstrates various developments within the four countries with regard to different voter appeal of parties, patterns of voter representation, and dispositions to join other parties in legislative or executive alliances. The authors also present interesting avenues of comparison for broader sets of countries."--Jacket
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- Publication Date:1999.
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- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1999.
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- Description:1 online resource (xiv, 457 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781139175173, 1139175173
- oclc:ocn817919807
- LC Classification:JN96.A979
- Dewey Decimal:324.247
Table of Contents
Historical legacies and strategies of democratization : pathways toward post-communist polities -- The quality of post-communist democracy : patterns of party competition, representation, and inter-party collaboration -- From communist rule to democracy : four Central and East European countries -- Empirical research strategy -- Programmatic citizen-elite linkage strategies across post-communist polities -- Linkage strategies within party systems : diversity among parties -- Political divides and alignments : the politicians' perspective -- Electoral constituency alignments : emerging political cleavages? -- Political representation -- The governability of post-communist democracies : coalition politics between passions and policy interests -- The diversity of post-communist democratic governance.
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