Learning from the West? brings insight into political life after
the collapse of communism and the fall of the Iron Curtain in the
late 1980s. For Communist parties and their successors (CSPs), the
challenge was perhaps the greatest - to redefine themselves within
new, 'westernised' political systems. As these parties sought to
adapt their programmatic appeals to their new environments, they
searched for policies from abroad that could fit these new
political structures. The political parties of Western Europe
provided a rich range of programmes from which policies could be
drawn. This book analyses how, to what extent and under what
conditions external influences came to bear on the programmatic
development of CSPs. It argues that while some parties remain
neo-communist in orientation, growling about the evils of
capitalism on the far-left of their respective political systems,
others have developed into social democratic actors, embracing
programmatic ideals that often bear a strong resemblance to those
of centre-left actors in Western Europe. This book was previously
published as a special issue of The Journal of Communist Studies
and Transition Politics.
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