Informal Politics in Post-Communist Europe: Political Parties, Clientelism and State Capture

ISBN-13: 9781138572492 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 202 str.

Michal Klima

Opis

This book offers a fascinating, thought-provoking and ground-breaking study of post-communist political life. It is one of the first full-length academic works to explore the question of how informal structures, headed by bosses, godfathers and oligarchs, affect formal party politics and democracy.

Spis treści

1. Post-communism – Clientelism, Party and State Capture  2. Party Capture: Privatisation 'from Below'  3. Party Capture: Colonisation 'from Above'  4. The Clientelist Party, Clientelist Parliamentarism and Clientelist Regime  5. "Old Parties in New Party Systems?"  6. Conclusion

O autorze

Michal Klíma is a professor of political science and currently the Rector of the Metropolitan University Prague, Czech Republic. He is a frequent commentator on Czech television and has authored several works on issues related to political life in the country and in the post-communist region.