Post-Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation, and Inter-Party CooperationPost-Communist Party Systems examines democratic party competition in four post-communist polities in the mid- 1990's, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Polan d. 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. |
Contents
Democracy and Party Competition | 1 |
Historical Legacies and Strategies of Democratization Pathways toward PostCommunist Polities | 19 |
The Quality of PostCommunist Democracy Patterns of Party Competition Representation and InterParty Collaboration | 43 |
From Communist Rule to Democracy Four Central and East European Countries | 95 |
Empirical Research Strategy | 133 |
Programmatic CitizenElite Linkage Strategies across PostCommunist Polities | 157 |
Linkage Strategies within Party Systems Diversity among Parties | 195 |
Political Divides and Alignments The Politicians Perspective | 223 |
Political Representation | 311 |
The Governability of PostCommunist Democracies Coalition Politics between Passions and Policy Interests | 347 |
The Diversity of PostCommunist Democratic Governance | 385 |
List of Political Parties and Electoral Alliances | 411 |
Questionnaire for the Elite Study | 414 |
Population Survey Questions Policy Opinions | 425 |
Bibliography | 427 |
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alignments alliance analysis authoritarian average BBWR Bulgaria bureaucratic-authoritarian BZNS Central European countries citizens clientelist coalition communist party communist regime communist rule competitive dimensions competitors configurations cultural Czech Republic divisions East Central European economic issues economic policy economic reform election electoral constituencies explained variance factor Fidesz FKGP former communist four countries Hungarian Hungarian Socialist Party Hungary institutions inter-party internal issue positions KDNP left-right placements left-right self-placements legacies legislative liberal libertarian linkage market-liberal MSZP party competition party elites party positions party system party's patrimonial communism patterns percent Poland polarizing trusteeship policy distances policy issues policy positions Polish political divides political-cultural politicians post-communist democracies post-communist parties post-communist polities programmatic crystallization programmatic diffuseness programmatic structuring protectionism regime divide relations representation respondents salience scores sector social social-protectionist socio-cultural issues Solidarność spatial standard deviations strategies survey systematic asymmetries SzDSz tion transition valence competition variables voters ZCHN