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The Routledge Handbook of East European Politics is an
authoritative overview that will help a wide readership develop an
understanding of the region in all its political, economic, and
social complexity. Including Central Europe, the Baltic republics,
South Eastern Europe, and the Western Balkans, as well as all the
countries of the former Soviet Union, it is unrivalled in breadth
and depth, affording a comprehensive overview of Eastern European
politics provided by leading experts in the fields of comparative
politics, international relations, and public administration.
Through a series of cutting-edge articles, it seeks to explain and
understand patterns of Eastern European politics today. The
Routledge Handbook of East European Politics will be a key
reference point both for advanced-level students developing
knowledge about the subject, researchers producing new material in
the area, and those interested and working in the fields of East
European Politics, Russian Politics, EU Politics, and more broadly
in European Politics, Comparative Politics, Democratization
Studies, and International Relations.
This volume makes a significant contribution to the debate about
the development of post-communist civil society by focusing on its
alleged 'dark side', i.e., on the groups that are excluded from
'civil society' on both conceptual and normative grounds. The
chapters, written by specialists in the field, explore in rich
empirical detail the complexities involved when such groups - like
the skinheads in Hungary, the farmers' 'Self Defence' movement in
Poland or the war-veterans in Croatia - challenge the state, engage
in community activism, or get involved in protest actions. It also
offers a contrasting perspective by focusing on similar activities
by the alleged 'pro-democratic' actors of civil society, such as
Impulse 99 in the Czech Republic. The book maintains that political
protest, or contentious politics, should be included under a broad
and positive development of associational activity in the region.
Uncivil Society? Contentious Politics in Post-Communist Europe is a
fascinating study, and will be of interest to scholars of Eastern
European politics and history.
It is not possible to understand the nature and functioning of
post-communist political parties without understanding their
relationship with the state. On the one hand, few parties in the
region would be able to survive and perform without state resources
as they lack strong roots within the wider society. On the other
hand, the relatively weak states inherited from the communist
period offer parties and elites opportunities for various forms of
rent-seeking within state institutions. But how can we understand
the relationship between parties and the state? How do the
party-state links work in practice and do they exhibit any
cross-national or cross-party variation? Are there any discernible
patterns of party-state linkages among the post-communist
democracies? Previously published as a special issue of The Journal
of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, this volume addresses
these questions. The party-state linkages are analyzed alongside
three analytical dimensions: state financing of parties, their
legal regulation, and party patronage within the state
institutions. The contributors bring together case studies of
post-communist countries, as well as cross-country comparative
analysis, each addressing at least one of these analytical
dimensions. Besides providing a framework within which studies of
party-state relationship can be undertaken, the book brings
comparative evidence on the extent and the manner in which parties
in the region use the state for their own purposes.
It is not possible to understand the nature and functioning of
post-communist political parties without understanding their
relationship with the state. On the one hand, few parties in the
region would be able to survive and perform without state resources
as they lack strong roots within the wider society. On the other
hand, the relatively weak states inherited from the communist
period offer parties and elites opportunities for various forms of
rent-seeking within state institutions. But how can we understand
the relationship between parties and the state? How do the
party-state links work in practice and do they exhibit any
cross-national or cross-party variation? Are there any discernible
patterns of party-state linkages among the post-communist
democracies? Previously published as a special issue of The Journal
of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, this volume addresses
these questions. The party-state linkages are analyzed alongside
three analytical dimensions: state financing of parties, their
legal regulation, and party patronage within the state
institutions. The contributors bring together case studies of
post-communist countries, as well as cross-country comparative
analysis, each addressing at least one of these analytical
dimensions. Besides providing a framework within which studies of
party-state relationship can be undertaken, the book brings
comparative evidence on the extent and the manner in which parties
in the region use the state for their own purposes.
This title was first published in 2001. Based on a unique set of
structured interviews with parliamentarians and additional
interviews with party leaders and activists, this significant
volume provides an illuminating account of the formation of the new
democracies in Czechoslovakia and later, the Czech Republic and
Slovakia. Examining efforts to construct stable democratic
parliamentary regimes in the wake of communist breakdown, it
provides a rigorous analysis of parliaments' relations with the
electorate and the executive, as well as their internal working.
Richly detailed and clearly written, this original study is an
invaluable addition to the collection of anyone interested in
post-communist Europe or parliamentary studies.
This volume makes a significant contribution to the debate about the development of post-communist civil society by focusing on its alleged 'dark side', i.e., on the groups that are excluded from 'civil society' on both conceptual and normative grounds. The chapters, written by specialists in the field, explore in rich empirical detail the complexities involved when such groups - like the skinheads in Hungary, the farmers' 'Self Defence' movement in Poland or the war-veterans in Croatia - challenge the state, engage in community activism, or get involved in protest actions. It also offers a contrasting perspective by focusing on similar activities by the alleged 'pro-democratic' actors of civil society, such as Impulse 99 in the Czech Republic. The book maintains that political protest, or contentious politics, should be included under a broad and positive development of associational activity in the region. Uncivil Society? Contentious Politics in Post-Communist Europe is a fascinating study, and will be of interest to scholars of Eastern European politics and history.
This title was first published in 2001. Based on a unique set of
structured interviews with parliamentarians and additional
interviews with party leaders and activists, this significant
volume provides an illuminating account of the formation of the new
democracies in Czechoslovakia and later, the Czech Republic and
Slovakia. Examining efforts to construct stable democratic
parliamentary regimes in the wake of communist breakdown, it
provides a rigorous analysis of parliaments' relations with the
electorate and the executive, as well as their internal working.
Richly detailed and clearly written, this original study is an
invaluable addition to the collection of anyone interested in
post-communist Europe or parliamentary studies.
The Routledge Handbook of East European Politics is an
authoritative overview that will help a wide readership develop an
understanding of the region in all its political, economic, and
social complexity. Including Central Europe, the Baltic republics,
South Eastern Europe, and the Western Balkans, as well as all the
countries of the former Soviet Union, it is unrivalled in breadth
and depth, affording a comprehensive overview of Eastern European
politics provided by leading experts in the fields of comparative
politics, international relations, and public administration.
Through a series of cutting-edge articles, it seeks to explain and
understand patterns of Eastern European politics today. The
Routledge Handbook of East European Politics will be a key
reference point both for advanced-level students developing
knowledge about the subject, researchers producing new material in
the area, and those interested and working in the fields of East
European Politics, Russian Politics, EU Politics, and more broadly
in European Politics, Comparative Politics, Democratization
Studies, and International Relations.
Party Patronage and Party Government in European Democracies brings
together insights from the worlds of party politics and public
administration in order to analyze the role of political parties in
public appointments across contemporary Europe. Based on an
extensive new data gathered through expert interviews in fifteen
European countries, this book offers the first systematic
comparative assessment of the scale of party patronage and its role
in sustaining modern party governments. Among the key findings are:
First, patronage appointments tend to be increasingly dominated by
the party in public office rather than being used or controlled by
the party organization outside parliament. Second, rather than
using appointments as rewards, as used to be the case in more
clientelistic systems in the past, parties are now more likely to
emphasize appointments that can help them to manage the
infrastructure of government and the state. In this way patronage
becomes an organizational rather than an electoral resource. Third,
patronage appointments are increasingly sourced from channels
outside of the party, thus helping to make parties look
increasingly like network organizations, primarily constituted by
their leaders and their personal and political hinterlands.
Comparative Politics is a series for students, teachers, and
researchers of political science that deals with contemporary
government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are
characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong
methodological rigour. The series is published in association with
the European Consortium for Political Research. For more
information visit: www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr The Comparative Politics
series is edited by Professor David M. Farrell, School of Politics
and International Relations, University College Dublin, Kenneth
Carty, Professor of Political Science, University of British
Columbia, and Professor Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Institute of Political
Science, Philipps University, Marburg.
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