Post-communist party systems: competition, representation, and inter-party cooperation

Herbert Kitschelt, Zdenka Mansfeldova, Radoslav Markowski, Gábor Tóka

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Post-Communist Party Systems examines democratic party competition in four postcommunist polities in the mid-1990s, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. Legacies of precommunist rule turn out to play as much a role in accounting for differences as the institutional differences incorporated in the new democratic rules of the game. The book demonstrates various developments within the four countries with regard to different voter appeal of parties, patterns of voter representation, and dispositions to join other parties in legislative or executive alliances. The authors also present interesting avenues of comparison for broader sets of countries.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationNew York, New York
PublisherCambridge University Press
Number of pages457
ISBN (Print)052165890X
DOIs
StatePublished - 1999

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