Political Opposition in Theory and Central European PracticeThis book offers interpretations of different forms of political opposition in political theory and also in the contemporary development of politics and government in Central Europe. The problem is analyzed through a comparative approach. The first part of the book targets the question of definitions and typologies of political opposition, above all, in democratic, but partly also in non-democratic regimes. The second part deals with the question of models of political opposition in Central Europe after the fall of communism in the late twentieth century and in the present. |
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Introduction to the theory of political opposition | 15 |
Political opposition in Central Europe | 90 |
Conclusion | 154 |
Bibliography | 160 |
Zusammenfassung | 190 |
Common terms and phrases
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