Developments in Central and East European Politics 4Stephen White, Judy Batt, Paul G. Lewis Duke University Press, 2007 - 310 pages The face of Central and Eastern Europe has been dramatically transformed since the collapse of communism. The region faces new challenges, including the needs to find a balance between effective leadership and accountability and to reverse the economic decline of the late communist years. Addressing these concerns and others, Developments in Central and East European Politics 4 brings together specially commissioned chapters by leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. The chapters, all of which are new to this edition, focus on key features of the political systems that have emerged following the transition to postcommunist rule and the enlargement of the European Union through 2006. Full attention is given to the pattern of events in individual nations, but the main emphasis is on the framework of politics across the region--constitutions, leadership, parliaments, parties, and electoral systems--and the process of politics, as it is revealed in political participation, civil society, economic change, and the quality of democratic government within and beyond the region. Clearly written and well supported with references and suggestions for further reading, Developments in Central and East European Politics 4 is the ideal guide to the process of change in a group of states that were formerly modeled on the Soviet Union but are now a distinctive and varied presence within a continent that has been redefining its boundaries, its values, its economic systems, and its international allegiances. Contributors. Judy Batt, Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Sarah Birch, Heather Grabbe, Tim Haughton, Krzysztof Jasiewicz, Petr Kopecký, Paul G. Lewis, Frances Millard, Cas Mudde, D. Mario Nuti, Mark Pittaway, Ray Taras, Stephen White, Andrew Wilson, Kataryna Wolczuk |
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... elections 1992-2006 3.4 Victorious parties in the Polish Sejm , 2001 and 2005 4.1 Parliamentary elections in Slovakia 2006 4.2 Support for selected Bulgarian parties in the 1997 , 2001 and 2005 elections Ukrainian presidential election ...
... Elections were the major reason for changes of government . Of 29 governments , 11 changed because the government was defeated at the subsequent election . In Poland , no government saw successive re - elec- tion . Up until 2005 , power ...
... elections - Paroubek was implicated in scandals sur- rounding the misuse of EU structural funds . Widely viewed as a ' refer- endum ' on the indecisive parliamentary election result , the ODS scored a resounding victory in both local ...
Contents
From Communist to PostCommunist Politics | 20 |
The collapse of communist rule | 26 |
The challenge of postcommunism | 32 |
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