Political Parties in New Democracies: Party Organization in Southern and East-Central Europe

✍ Scribed by Ingrid van Biezen (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 266
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
The Path towards Democracy: the Institutional Context of Party Formation....Pages 15-27
Party Formation and Organizational Development: Opportunities and Constraints....Pages 28-49
Front Matter....Pages 51-51
Portugal....Pages 53-76
Spain....Pages 77-104
Hungary....Pages 105-131
The Czech Republic....Pages 132-154
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
On the Internal Balance of Power: the Extra-Parliamentary Party vs the Party in Public Office....Pages 157-176
Financing Parties in New Democracies....Pages 177-201
Patterns of Party Organization in New Democracies....Pages 202-220
Back Matter....Pages 221-255

✦ Subjects

Comparative Politics; European Politics; Political Science

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