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Author Pridham, Geoffrey

Title Stabilising Fragile Democracies : New Party Systems in Southern and Eastern Europe
Published London : Routledge, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (288 pages)
Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction: Stabilising fragile democracies and party system development; Party inheritances and party identities; From nomenclatura to clientura: the emergence of new political elites in east-central Europe; Structuring the new party systems after the dictatorship: coalitions, alliances, fusions and splits during the transition and post-transition stages; Parties and electoral choices in east-central Europe; Italy's postwar transition in contemporary perspective
The emergence of new party systems and transitions to democracy: Spain in comparative perspectiveSecuring democracy in post-authoritarian Greece: the role of political parties; The revenge of history: the Portuguese, Spanish and Hungarian transitions; some comparisons; The emergence of new party systems and transitions to democracy: Romania and Portugal compared; The formation of political parties in post-communist Poland; Bulgaria's new party system; Index
Summary The first book to provide a systematic comparison of the democratic transitions in both Eastern and Southern Europe, covering Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Hungary, Romania, Poland and Bulgaria
Notes English
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Subject Political parties -- Europe, Eastern -- History
Political parties -- Europe, Southern -- History
Political parties
Politics and government
SUBJECT Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90000580
Europe, Southern -- Politics and government
Subject Eastern Europe
Southern Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Lewis, Paul
ISBN 9780203430132
0203430131
1134815964
9781134815968
1280201789
9781280201783