What has become of the Communist parties that once held monopoly power in the east bloc? A decade ago, it was assumed that they would dissolve, but many of them have …
Seit den 50er Jahren haben die ideologischen Massenparteien sich in Volksparteien gewandelt. Nach einer kurzen Welle der Reideologisierung in den 60er und 70er Jahren …
Scholarship on East European politics expects that party competition in the region is determined by various communist legacies, juxtaposing state-centric authoritarianism to a …
Z Enyedi - Handbook of party politics, 2006 - torrossa.com
The actual role that parties fulfill in the region is hotly debated, however. Some authors include parties among the chief agents of the transition and consolidation (eg, Ágh, 1998a; …
T Haughton - Europe-Asia Studies, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
IN ELECTORAL TERMS the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) has been Slovakia's most successful party since its formation in 1991. The clear winner of the June …
This book considers the emergence of centre right parties in Eastern Europe following the fall of communism, focusing primarily on the case of the Czech Republic. Although the …
M Rybář - Post-Communist EU Member States, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
Introduction Slovakia's road to consolidated democracy has not been straightforward. Following the 'Velvet Revolution'of November 1989, a multi-party parliamentary democracy …
O Gyárfášová, G Mesežnikov - Transforming the Transformation?, 2015 - taylorfrancis.com
The political arena in Bulgaria has witnessed cyclical waves of populism since the break-up of bi-polar competition in 2001. The cyclical rise in demand for 'hard'and 'soft'versions of …
T Haughton - Party Politics, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
Most of the literature on communist-successor parties has focused on their successful return to power in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s. This article aims to contribute to the …