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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... parliamentary sessions to speed up the adoption of laws ( as in Slovenia ) . Consequently , the capacity of parliaments to challenge the legislation emanating from the executive has been reduced since , for example , the parliaments ...
... parliamentary cultures , settled institutional structures , and parliamentary routines . However , more restrictive institutional rules have not produced similar results elsewhere . In the Polish Sejm - the parliament that had perhaps ...
... parliamentary system , where the cabinet is subject to both parliamentary and presidential confidence . Thanks to the control over the cabinet in a president - parliamentary system , the president is , as a rule , more powerful than in ...
Contents
From Communist to PostCommunist Politics | 20 |
The collapse of communist rule | 26 |
The challenge of postcommunism | 32 |
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