Origin, Ideology and Transformation of Political Parties: East-Central and Western Europe ComparedHere, the authors critically apply the party-families approach to political parties in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia. With chapters devoted to social democrats, greens, and more, the book charts the party's origins, ideologies, and international ties alongside their Western European counterparts. |
Contents
Types of Political Parties and Party Families | 1 |
Long Way of Adaptation | 15 |
2 | 36 |
Family Diversity and Traditionalist Nostalgia in East | 41 |
1 | 65 |
Success in the West Fooling Around in the East | 67 |
1 | 83 |
Remembrance of Things Past | 87 |
1 | 152 |
Between Tradition and Change | 157 |
2 | 179 |
Between Tradition and Postmodernity | 181 |
1 | 202 |
Rise in the West | 203 |
1 | 213 |
Party Families in EastCentral and Western Europe at | 215 |
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