0160653 - SOU-Z 20023324 RIV CZ eng B - Monography
Kostelecký, Tomáš
Political Parties after Communism: Developments in East-Central Europe.
Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2002. 213 s. ISBN 0-8018-6851-3
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z7028912
Keywords : political parties * central-east Europe * post-communism
Subject RIV: AO - Sociology, Demography

Book describes the party development in the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary after the 1989. The effects of political history, social cleavages, and electoral rules on the formation of party systems are studied. Author sees a general move toward more organized political parties, greater rational choice and self-interest in votersŽ decisions, and better-structured, stabler politics.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0058075