Origin, Ideology and Transformation of Political Parties : East-Central and Western Europe Compared.
Two decades have passed since the transition to democracy began in Eastern Europe. Today, West and East-Central European countries share a common political space - the European Union. This has created a fascinating opportunity for analysis of the similarities and differences between these countries....
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Kopecek, Lubomír. |
| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Farnham : Taylor & Francis Group, 2010. |
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Types of Political Parties and Party Families
- 2 Social Democrats and Socialists: Long Way of Adaptation and Peculiarities of Origins of East-Central European Parties
- 3 The Far Left: Family Diversity and Traditionalist Nostalgia in East-Central Europe
- 4 The Greens: Success in the West, "Fooling Around" in the East
- 5 The Agrarian Parties: Remembrance of Things Past
- 6 The Liberals
- Or, the Curse of the Political Center
- 7 The Christian Democrats: Between Adaptation and a Struggle for Survival
- 8 The Conservatives: Between Tradition and Change
- 9 The Far Right: Between Tradition and Post-modernity
- 10 Ethnic and Regional Parties: Rise in the West, Remnants in the East
- 11 Party Families in East-Central and Western Europe at the Beginning of the 21st Century
- Bibliography
- Party Documents
- Index.