Post-Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation, and Inter-Party Cooperation
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Post-Communist Party Systems examines democratic party competition in four post-communist polities in the mid-1990s: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. Legacies of pre-communist 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.
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- Authors
- Kitschelt, H., Mansfeldova, Z., Markowski, R., & Toka, G.
- Affiliations
- Duke University (US)
- ORCID
- Kitschelt, Herbert
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 1999-08-13
- OpenAlex
- W4248136872
- Cited by
- 1,084
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 72.38
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Eastern European Communism and Reforms
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Post-Communist Economic and Political Transition
- Keywords
- post-communist party systems, party system, voter appeal, voter representation, party coalitions, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, comparative party politics
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