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1 online resource (223 pages) |
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Routledge Studies on Political Parties and Party Systems Ser |
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Routledge Studies on Political Parties and Party Systems Ser
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Cover; Half Title; Series Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of box; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Post-communism -- clientelism, party and state capture; 1.1 Post-communism -- a unique transition; 1.2 Transition strategies: Central Europe and the Russian sphere; 1.3 Informal networks, informal politics; 1.4 The informal predatory nomenklatura; 1.5 The informal 'client-client' pattern; 1.6 Post-1989 clientelism -- corruption and patronage; 1.7 State capture -- the clientelist version; 1.8 Party capture: the firm-party-firm pattern |
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1.9 Post-communist alternatives in Central Europe1.10 Concluding remarks; 2 Party capture: privatisation 'from below'; 2.1 Party privatisation 'from below'; 2.1.1 Recruitment of 'fake' party members; 2.1.2 Withdrawal of licences in the ODS in 2013; 2.1.3 Withdrawal of licences in the ODS in 2014; 2.1.4 Regional bosses -- a new layer; 2.1.4.1 The regional boss -- the narrow and broad approach; 2.1.4.2 The regional boss -- godfather; 2.1.4.3 The regional boss -- trader; 2.1.4.4 The regional boss -- authentic party politician; 2.1.5 National bosses; 2.1.6 The 'Kens' -- an appendage of the bosses |
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2.1.7 A list of selected bosses2.1.8 The new black marketeering; 2.1.9 Decline of the bosses -- what next?; 3 Party capture: colonisation 'from above'; 3.1 Pro-business politics -- oligopolies and monopolies; 3.1.1 Actors of colonisation 'from above' -- the example of ČEZ; 3.1.2 ČEZ, Škoda Holding, I & C Energo and Appian; 3.1.3 ČEZ, J & T and Czech Coal; 3.2 A comparison: party privatisation and colonisation; 3.3 Political and economic cartels; 3.4 Concluding remarks; 4 The clientelist party, clientelist parliamentarism and clientelist regime; 4.1 The client-client relationship |
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4.2 The triangle: parties-business-civil service4.3 Concentric circles of clientelist networks; 4.4 The contagion of clientelism; 4.5 Structural corruption; 4.6 Security and surveillance potential; 4.7 Reduction of the significance of elections; 4.8 Business and parasitic functions; 4.9 A modified concept of fundamental cleavages; 4.10 The party organisational model -- confederation; 4.11 Clientelist parliamentarism; 4.12 Clientelist democracy; 4.13 The concept of the clientelist party; 4.14 A modified political system; 4.15 Concluding remarks; 5 ""Old parties in new party systems? |
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5.1 The new parties -- a theoretical framework5.2 Central Europe: ""old parties in new party systems?; 5.3 Central Europe: a new party subsystem; 5.4 'Flash' and 'start-up' parties; 5.5 From mass to modern elite parties; 5.6 Dis/continuity with the clientelist past; 5.6.1 The business-firm party: ANO; 5.6.2 ANO's positive and negative potentials; 5.6.3 Quo vadis ANO?; 5.7 Concluding remarks; 6 Conclusion; 6.1 Three critical political junctures; 6.1.1 The second political juncture -- since 2000; 6.1.2 The third political juncture -- since 2015 |
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6.2 The myth of referenda: the deconstruction of representative democracy |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351332262 |
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1351332260 |
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