Political Parties in New Democracies

✍ Scribed by Ingrid Van Biezen

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 273
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Ingrid van Biezen provides a comprehensive comparative analysis of party formation and organizational development in recently established democracies. She focuses on four democracies in Southern and East-Central Europe and addresses political parties from a cross-regional perspective. Featuring a wealth of new information on party organization, this book provides a valuable theoretical and empirical contribution to our understanding of political parties in both old and new democracies.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures and Tables......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
List of Party Acronyms......Page 14
Introduction......Page 18
Part 1 Framework......Page 30
1 The Path Towards Democracy: the Institutional Context of Party Formation......Page 32
2 Party Formation and Organizational development: Opportunities and Constraints......Page 45
Part 2 Membership Orgainzations and Party Structures......Page 68
3 Portugal......Page 70
4 Spain......Page 94
5 Hungary......Page 122
6 The Czech Republic......Page 149
Part 3 Cross-National Patterns......Page 172
7 On the Internal Balance of Power the Extra-Parliamentary Party vs the Party in Public Office......Page 174
8 Financing Parties in New Democracies......Page 194
9 Patterns of Party Organisations in New Democracies......Page 219
Notes......Page 238
References......Page 248
Index......Page 266

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