Lewis Party Development and Democratic Change in Post-communist Europe

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-135-27825-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Reihe: Democratization Studies

This work surveys processes of party development in the context of the ten years of democratic change in post-communist eastern Europe. It examines the capacity of the former ruling parties to attract contemporary voters and their role in contributing to the consolidation of the new democratic regimes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lewis, Paul

Lewis, Paul G.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Democratization and political change in post-communist Estaern Europe, P.G. Lewis; toward a Soviet past or a socialist future? understanding why voters choose communist parties, S. Oates, W.L.Miller and A. Grodeland; successor parties and democratic consolidation in post-communist politics, J. Ishiyama; party system institutionalization in new democracies: Poland - a trend setter with no followers, R. Markowski; the "Professionalization" of party campaigning in post-communist Poland, A. Szczerbiak; party and state in democratic Slovenia, A Krasovec; institutions and party development in the Baltic States, V. Pettai; Slovakia 10 years after the collapse of communist rule, G. Wightman; perspectives on democratic party development in Belarus, E. Korastelava; conservatism and party identity in Eatsern Europe, K. Lok Chan; patterns of Europeanization and transnational party cooperation - party development in Central and Eastern Europe, G. Pridham; conclusion - party development and democratization in Eastern Europe, P.G.Lewis.