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Post-communist party systems : competition, representation, and inter-party cooperation / Herbert Kitschelt ... [and others].
Van Pelt Library JN96.A979 P67 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in comparative politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political parties--Europe, Eastern.
- Political parties.
- Eastern Europe.
- Post-communism--Europe, Eastern.
- Post-communism.
- Europe, Eastern--Politics and government--1989-.
- Europe, Eastern.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 457 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- This study examines democratic party competition in four post-communist polities in the mid-1990s, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Democracy and Party Competition 1
- Part I Theory: Party Systems and the Procedural Quality of Post-Communist Democracy
- 1 Historical Legacies and Strategies of Democratization: Pathways toward Post-Communist Polities 19
- 2 The Quality of Post-Communist Democracy: Patterns of Party Competition, Representation, and Inter-Party Collaboration 43
- Part II Setting and Research Strategy
- 3 From Communist Rule to Democracy: Four Central and East European Countries 95
- 4 Empirical Research Strategy 133
- Part III The Structuring of Party Competition
- 5 Programmatic Citizen-Elite Linkage Strategies across Post-Communist Polities 157
- 6 Linkage Strategies within Party Systems: Diversity among Parties 195
- Part IV Political Alignments and Dimensions of Competition
- 7 Political Divides and Alignments: The Politicians' Perspective 223
- 8 Electoral Constituency Alignments: Emerging Political Cleavages? 262
- Part V Political Representation and the Quality of Democratic Governance
- 9 Political Representation 309
- 10 The Governability of Post-Communist Democracies: Coalition Politics between Passions and Policy Interests 345
- 11 The Diversity of Post-Communist Democratic Governance 383
- Appendix I List of Political Parties and Electoral Alliances 409
- Appendix II Questionnaire for the Elite Study 412
- Appendix III Population Survey Questions (Policy Opinions) 423.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-447) and index.
- ISBN:
- 052165288X
- 052165890X
- OCLC:
- 40074118
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