{"product_id":"post-communist-party-systems-competition-representation-and-inter-party-cooperation-hardback-9780521652889","title":"Post-Communist Party Systems; Competition, Representation, and Inter-Party Cooperation (Hardback) 9780521652889","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePost-Communist Party Systems\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCompetition, Representation, and Inter-Party Cooperation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis study examines democratic party competition in four post-communist polities in the mid-1990s: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHerbert Kitschelt (Author), Zdenka Mansfeldova (Author), Radoslaw Markowski (Author), Gabor Toka (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521652889, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 August 1999\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e474 pages, 24 b\/w illus.  68 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.8 x 16.1 x 3.5 cm, 0.76 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This outstanding volume, authorized by a multi-national team and deploying an empirically sophisticated and theoretically driven research program, attempts to explain variation in the quality of democratic accountability, governability, and responsiveness in four postcommunist states...The result is an engaging and highly nuanced account that highlights the structuring role of communist-era legacies in shaping choices concerning new political institutions and the quality of democratic procedures...the book is theoretically rich, methodologically innovative, and opens new avenues for further research...a work of great distinction.\"   Slavic Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePost-Communist Party Systems examines democratic party competition in four post-communist polities in the mid-1990s: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction Democracy and Party Competition\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Theory, Party Systems and the Procedural Quality of Post-Communist Democracy: 1. Historical legacies and strategies of democratization: pathways toward post-communist polities\u003cbr\u003e 2. The quality of post-communist democracy: patterns of party competition, interest representation and governance\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Setting and Research Strategy: 3. From communist rule to democracy: four central and East European countries\u003cbr\u003e 4. Empirical research strategy\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Structuring of Party Competition: 5. Programmatic citizen-elite linkage strategies across post-communist polities\u003cbr\u003e 6. Linkage strategies within party systems: diversity among parties\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Political Alignments and Dimensions of Competition: 7. Political divides and alignments: the politicians\u003cbr\u003e 8. Electoral constituency alignments: emerging political cleavages?\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Political Representation and the Quality of Democratic Governance: 9. Political representation\u003cbr\u003e 10. The governability of post-communist democracies: collation politics between passions and policy interests\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. Conclusion: 11. The diversity of post-communist democratic governance\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Political structure \u0026amp; processes [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political structure \u0026amp; processes\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20structure%20\u0026amp;%20processes%20%5BJPH%5D%22\"\u003eJPH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46251982127384,"sku":"9780521652889","price":77.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521652889i.jpg?v=1691927804","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/post-communist-party-systems-competition-representation-and-inter-party-cooperation-hardback-9780521652889","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}