Origin, ideology and transformation of political parties : East-Central and Western Europe compared /
Two decades have now passed since the transition to democracy began in Eastern Europe, transforming dictatorships into democracies. Today the West and East-Central European countries share a common political space - the European Union. This offers a fascinating perspective for analysis of the simila...
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Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- 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: similarities and divergences.