Post-Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation, and Inner-Party Cooperation

Post-Communist Party Systems examines democratic party competition in four postcommunist polities in the mid-1990s, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. Legacies of precommunist rule turn out to play as much a role in accounting for differences as the institutional differences 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.

Author: Herbert Kitschelt, Zdenka Mansfeldova, Radoslaw Markowski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 08/13/1999
Pages: 476
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.04w x 1.25d
ISBN: 9780521658904

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