Description |
1 online resource |
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Introduction and theoretical framework / John T. Ishiyama -- Adaptation and change in formerly dominant political parties : comparing experiences in Hungary, Taiwan, and Tanzania / Sahar Shafqat -- Czech and Slovak communist successor party transformations after 1989 : organizational resources, elite capacities, and public commitments / Anna Grzymala-Busse -- Two paths of change? : how former communist pparties remade themselves after communism's collapse / Daniel F. Ziblatt -- The Communist Party of the Russian Federation : from the Fourth Congress to the summer of 1998 government crisis / Barbara Ann Chotiner -- What kinds of parties are emerging? : patterns of successor party organizational development / John T. Ishiyama -- Electoral systems, changing voter preferences and the success of former communist parties in Baltic elections / Bryon Moraski -- Challenging expectations : a comparative study of the communist successor parties of Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania / Jeffrey Stevenson Murer -- Discussion and conclusions / John T. Ishiyama |
Summary |
The development of the communist successor parties will vitally affect the course of democratic consolidation in the post-communist countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Yet it would be incorrect to assume that these parties will affect the course of democratic consolidation in exactly the same way, or develop along the same lines. Indeed the communist successor parties have evolved in a variety of different ways. What accounts for the divergent paths followed by the communist parties of Central and Eastern Europe? Why are some of these parties able to make a relatively successful transition from communist parties committed to democratic competition while others seem far less capable (or willing) to do so? |
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This book presents thoughtful analyses of these important questions |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-254) and index |
Notes |
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Subject |
Communist parties -- Europe, Eastern
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Communist parties -- Former Soviet republics
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
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Communist parties
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Politics and government
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Nachfolge
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Politisches System
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Kommunistische Partei
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SUBJECT |
Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90000580
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Former Soviet republics -- Politics and government
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Eastern Europe
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Soviet Union -- Former Soviet republics
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Osteuropa
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Ishiyama, John T., 1960-
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LC no. |
2020677916 |
ISBN |
9781633210240 |
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1633210243 |
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