Post-Communist EU Member States: Parties and Party SystemsSusanne Jungerstam-Mulders Providing comprehensive insights into the parties and party systems of post-communist EU member states within the framework of each country's specific conditions and developments, this volume examines in particular the cases of Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia. The book concentrates on three main themes: ideological cleavages between parties, party system competition, and party organization. Analytically competent and highly informative, it is suitable for courses on party systems and EU politics. |
Contents
Consolidation | |
Political Parties and the Party System in Latvia | |
From Stability | |
Patterns of Party Politics in Post1989 | |
Political Parties in the Czech | |
Changing Patterns of Party Politics | |
Party System Concentration | |
Between Bipolarity and Broad CoalitionBuilding | |
Party System Change in PostCommunist EU Member States | |
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Post-communist EU Member States: Parties and Party Systems Susanne Jungerstam-Mulders Limited preview - 2006 |
Post-Communist Eu Member States: Parties and Party Systems Susanne Jungerstam-Mulders No preview available - 2016 |
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2002 elections candidates cent Centre centreleft characterized Christian Democrats Civic Platform cleavage coalition Communist Party conflict consolidation Czech parties Czech Republic Democracy Democratic Left Alliance dimension dominant East Central economic effective number electoral system electoral threshold electoral volatility elite emerged Estonian Estonian party ethnic European Parliament Fidesz Fink Hafner fragmentation Homeland Union Hungarian parties Hungary HZDS ideological independence institutional intraparty issues Kopecký Latvia leftright leftwing Liberal Lithuanian party Mair majority Moreover number of parties opposition organizational parliamentary elections parliamentary parties parties and party party arena party competition party leaders party membership party organizations Party Politics party system party’s Peasant Party Poland Polish Polish Peasant Party political parties positions post postcommunist countries postSoviet reform regime rightwing parties Riigikogu role Saeima Saeima election Sąjūdis SDKÚ SDĽ Slovak Slovakia Slovenia Socialist society socioeconomic Solidarity Electoral Action stability structure Szczerbiak Table transition turnout voters votes