Stabilising Fragile Democracies: New Party Systems in Southern and Eastern Europe

ISBN-13: 9780415118033 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 288 str.

Geoffrey Pridham; Paul G. Lewis

Opis

Political parties play a central, if not the central, political role in parliamentary democracies. They are also likely to play a key role in the establishment of new parliamentary democracies. This volume provides a systematic comparison of the democratic transitions in both Eastern and Southern Europe from this point of view. There are four main themes concerning the role of parties that are examined: coping with the past (party identities and inheritances), the formation and performance of new democratic political elites, parties and alliances and their electoral behaviour. These themes guide the case studies, (which are written in comparative perspective), in four countries in both Southern and Eastern europe. The countries covered include Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Hungary, Romania, Poland and Bulgaria. Democratization is a very complex process, but what the study of political parties does is to focus on an area that links many of them. This book is intended to be a guide to students wishing to make sense of democratization and the role of political parties in that process

Spis treści

Introduction , Geoffrey Pridham, Paul Lewis; Chapter 1 Party inheritances and party identities, Michael Waller; Chapter 2 From nomenclature to clientura, Attila Ágh; Chapter 3 Structuring the new party systems after the dictatorship, Maurizio Cotta; Chapter 4 Part Ies and electoral choices in east-central europe, Gábor Tóka; Chapter 5 Italy’s postwar transition in contemporary perspective, Oreste Massari; Chapter 6 The emergence of new party systems and transitions to democracy, Paul Heywood; Chapter 7 Securing democracy in post-authoritarian Greece, Michalis Spourdalakis; Chapter 8 The revenge of history, András Bozóki, Bill Lomax; Chapter 9 The emergence of new party systems and transitions to democracy, Tom Gallagher; Chapter 10 The formation of political Part Ies in post-communist poland, Wlodzimierz Wesolowski; Chapter 11 Bulgaria’s new party system, Georgi Karasimeonov;

O autorze

Geoffrey Pridham is Professor of European Politics and Director of the Centre for Mediterranean Studies, University of Bristol., Paul Lewis is Senior Lecturer in Government at the Open University.