The Communist successor parties of Central and Eastern Europe
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 enjoyed electoral success. This book systematically examines how they have evolved. In the opening section, Herbert Kitschet and Ivan...
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Abingdon, Oxon :
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2020.
London : Taylor & Francis Group |
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"First published 2002 by M.E. Sharpe." Taylor & Francis ebooks en études centre-européennes (Licence nationale) |
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • The Communist successor parties of Central and Eastern Europe, András Bozóki, John T. Ishiyama, editors, Armonk, N.Y., M.E. Sharpe, 2002, 1 vol. (XVII-501 p.), 0-7656-0986-X |
Table of Contents:
- List of Tables and Figures About the Editors and Contributors
- Part I: Approaches
- 1. Introduction and Theoretical Framework /Andras Bozoki and John T. Ishiyama
- 2. Constraints and Opportunities in the Strategic Conduct of Post-Communist Successor Parties Regime Legacies as Causal Argument /Herbert Kitschelt
- 3. Prospects and Limits of New Social Democracy in the Transitional Societies of Central Europe /Janos Ladanyi and Ivan Szelenyi
- Part II: Case Studies
- 4. The Polish SLD in the 1990s
- From Opposition to Incumbents and Back /Radoslaw Markowski
- 5. The Hungarian Socialists
- Technocratic Modemizationism or New Social Democracy? /Andras Bozoki
- 6. The Troubled Evolution of Slovakia's Ex-Communists /Sharon Fisher
- 7. The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia after 1989
- "Subcultural Party" to Neocommunist Force? /Sean Hanle
- 8. The PDS
- Regional Party or a Second Social-Democratic Party in Germany? /Dieter Segert
- 9. The Romanian Postcommunist Parties
- A Story of Success /Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
- 10. The Yugoslav "Left" Parties
- Continuities of Communist Tradition in the Milosevic Era /Srbobran Brankovic
- 11. The Metamorphosis of the Communist Party of Lithuania /Diana Janusauskiene
- 12. The Russian KPRF
- The Powerlessness of the Powerful /Richard Sakwa
- Part III: Theoretical and Comparative Considerations
- 13. A Topology of Communist Successor Parties
- An Overview /John T. Ishiyama
- 14. Doomed to be Radicals?
- Organization, Ideology, and the Communist Successor Parties in East Central Europe /Daniel F. Ziblatt and Nick Biziouras
- 15. The Return of the Left and Democratic Consolidation in Poland and Hungary /Valerie Bunce
- 16. The Effects of Communist Party Transformation on the Institutionalization of Party Systems /Anna Grzymala-Busse
- 17. Changing Cleavage Structure and the Communist Successor Parties of the Visegrad Countries /Michael Bauer
- 18. Mainstreaming Extremism
- The Romanian PDSR and the Bulgarian Socialists in Comparative Perspective /Jeffrey Stevenson Murer
- 19. Organizational Strength Divorced from Power
- Comparing the Communist Parties of the Russian Federation and Ukraine /Barbara Ann Chotiner
- 20. An Unfinished Story
- Toward Explaining the Transformation of the Communist Successor Parties /John T. Ishiyama and Andras Bozoki
- Bibliography
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Index