| Description |
1 online resource (280 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : Czech exceptionalism / Andrew Roberts -- The birth of modern Czech politics : 1848-1918 / Vít Hloušek --Politics in interwar Czechoslovakia / Jan Holzer -- Czech lands under dictatorships and totalitarian regimes 1938-1989 / Jan Holzer -- The Velvet Revolution : the causes and process of the decline of communist power / Stanislav Balík -- The Velvet Divorce : the end of Czechoslovakia / Lubomír Kopeček -- Czech political institutions and the problems of parliamentary democracy / Lubomír Kopeček -- Electoral systems and an obsession with elections / Stanislav Balík -- Reshuffling the party system : from non-politics to anti-politics / Pavel Pšeja -- Market reforms, society and the main features of Czech capitalism / Lubomír Kopeček, Stanislav Balík -- Europeanising and Westernising / Vít Hloušek -- Five ways of looking at Czech politics / Andrew Roberts |
| Summary |
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of Czech politics, past and present. The authors not only cover the main political developments of the past two centuries, they also situate the current political system in the context of communist and pre-communist legacies. They argue that amidst the dramatic changes of the Velvet Revolution, one can find a plethora of continuities in culture and institutions that help to explain the shape of Czech politics today |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-271) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- World -- European.
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Czech Republic -- Politics and government
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Czechoslovakia -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85035324
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Czech Republic
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Czechoslovakia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hloušek, Vít, author.
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Kopeček, Lubomír, author.
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Holzer, Jan, author.
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Pšeja, Pavel, author.
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Roberts, Andrew Lawrence, 1970- author.
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| ISBN |
9783847409748 |
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3847409743 |
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