Ingrid van Biezen provides a comprehensive comparative analysis of party formation and
organizational development in recently established democracies. She focuses on four …

Political Parties in Post-Communist Eastern Europe is the first textbook to survey the course
of party developments in eastern Europe as a whole in the post-Communist period. This …

Keith Dowding first started collecting data on ministerial resignations in the UK in 1991 when
Brunel University gave him some money to employ a student for work placement duty. Many …

The postcommunist regimes in East-Central Europe are confronted with the double
challenge of establishing a democratic order and a market economy. The book discusses …

Elections and Democratization in Ukraine analyses the role of competitive elections in the
Ukraine's crucial democratic transition period of 1989 to 1998, focusing on how Ukrainian …

The study of political change in post-communist countries underwent many changes and
shifts of emphasis in the years following the fall of communism. It embraced broad-based …

Seit den 50er Jahren haben die ideologischen Massenparteien sich in Volksparteien
gewandelt. Nach einer kurzen Welle der Reideologisierung in den 60er und 70er Jahren …

When Lipset and Rokkan planned Party Systems and Voter Alignments, one of us wrote a
chapter on “The Party System of Spain, Past and Future”(Linz 1967). At that time Spain was …

This book is a political history of democratic elections in Poland from the first fully
competitive parliamentary elections in 1991 to the unexpected, most recent election in 2007 …

The centrepiece of representative democracy is the accountability of the government
through the electoral process. However, if accountability was only composed of a chance to …