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Cleavages, Parties, and Voters
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Studies from Bulgaria, the Czech
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292 S., Westport, Conn., Praeger, 1999 |
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ISBN 0-275-95589-3 |
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Abstract
This collection of essays summarizes and explains one of the most
fascinating developments of contemporary history: the peaceful revolution of
the central European nations from a long period of authoritarian regimes to
Western democracy. This process is still in full movement, so there is no
escape from disturbing questions: Is this transition already achieved? Or is
this a long-term evolution oscillating between ups and downs? Could the new
political culture fail and collapse to a less flexible and humanitarian polity?
A simple answer cannot be given. But this book offers rich material and
keen observationg by some of the most knowledgeable political analysts in these
countries. From such a treasure of information and analyses some fundamental
regularities can be extracted. A preface may serve best in its function as
signpost and leader to the book by waking the reader to these natural laws of
emerging democracy in the process of modernization.
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Acknowledgments
Part I: Introduction
Andrea Römmele |
Cleavage Structures and Party Systems in East and
Central Europe |
Kay Lawson |
Cleavages, Parties, and Voters |
Part II: Cleavages and Parties prior to 1989
Georgi Karasimeonov |
Between Democracy and Authoritarianism in Bulgaria
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Lubomír Brokl |
Cleavages and Parties prior to 1989 in the Czech
Republic |
György G. Márkus |
Hungarian Cleavages and Parties prior to 1989 |
Hieronim Kubiak |
Parties, Party Systems, and Cleavages in Poland:
1918-1989 |
Petre Datculescu |
Romania: Cleavages and Parties before 1989 |
Part III: Cleavages and Parties after 1989
Georgi Karasimeonov |
Past and New Cleavages in Post-Communist Bulgaria
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Josef Blahoz, Lubomír Brokl, and Zdenka
Mansfeldová |
Czech Political Parties and Cleavages after 1989 |
György G. Márkus |
Cleavages and Parties in Hungary after 1989 |
Jerzy J. Wiatr |
Political Parties and Cleavage Crystallization in
Poland, 1989-1993 |
Petre Datculescu |
Romania: Parties and Issues after 1989 |
Part IV: How the Voters Respond
Vladimir Shopov |
How the Voters Respond in Bulgaria |
Lubomír Brokl and Zdenka Mansfeldová
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How the Voters Respond in the Czech Republic |
János Simon |
Cleavages and Spaces of Competition in Hungary |
Jacek Raciborski |
How the Voters Respond: Poland |
Petre Datculescu |
Patterns of Voter Alignments in Present-Day Romania
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Further Readings
Index
About the Contributors |