Post-Communist EU Member States: Parties and Party Systems

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Susanne Jungerstam-Mulders
Routledge, Mar 2, 2017 - Political Science - 272 pages
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

List of Tables
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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Susanne Jungerstam-Mulders, PhD, was a researcher at the Centre for European Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland. She is currently Research Director at the Swedish Polytechnic, Finland.

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