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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2012
      August 1999
      ISBN:
      9781139175173
      9780521652889
      9780521658904
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139175173
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.76kg, 474 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.64kg, 476 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
      Subjects:
      Russian and East European Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Subjects:
    Russian and East European Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
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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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    "Welcome in the field." Comparative Politics

    "This hefty tome is the most substantial piece of research yet to emerge from the study of the transition to democracy in Eastern Europe." Choice

    "This hefty tome is the most substantial piece of research yet to emerge from the study of the transition to democracy in Eastern Europe." Choice

    "This outstanding volume, authorized by a multi-national team and deploying an empirically sophisticated and theoretically driven research program, attempts to explain variation in the quality of democratic accountability, governability, and responsiveness in four postcommunist states...The result is an engaging and highly nuanced account that highlights the structuring role of communist-era legacies in shaping choices concerning new political institutions and the quality of democratic procedures...the book is theoretically rich, methodologically innovative, and opens new avenues for further research...a work of great distinction." Slavic Review

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