The new democracies in Eastern Europe : party systems and political cleavages
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The new democracies in Eastern Europe : party systems and political cleavages
(Studies of communism in transition)
E. Elgar , Gower Pub. Co., c1991
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This major book - the first of its kind - provides a unique up-to-date account of the party systems that have evolved in Eastern Europe since the revolutions at the end of the 1980s. The new political systems of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria are analysed and compared. It also includes an analysis of the most recent developments in Eastern Germany.
The New Democracies in Eastern Europe presents a genuinely comparative perspective on the old and the new party systems. The breakdown of the old authoritarian system is shown to be a by-product of the built-in crisis in legitimacy which became progressively worse as the mistakes and failures of the communist regimes accumulated. A comparison between the political systems of the inter-war period with those of the present day shows that many of the difficulties encountered during the early periods of democracy are still present. As a result, the future of the new democratic structures in Eastern Europe is still uncertain.
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Contributors: M. Bankowicz, S. Berglund, J.A. Dellenbrant, M. Grzybowski
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