Post-Communist EU Member States
Title | Post-Communist EU Member States PDF eBook |
Author | Susanne Jungerstam-Mulders |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2017-03-02 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1351909703 |
Providing comprehensive insights into the parties and party systems of post-communist EU member states within the framework of each country's specific conditions and developments, this volume examines in particular the cases of Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia. The book concentrates on three main themes: ideological cleavages between parties, party system competition, and party organization. Analytically competent and highly informative, it is suitable for courses on party systems and EU politics.
Life in Post-Communist Eastern Europe after EU Membership
Title | Life in Post-Communist Eastern Europe after EU Membership PDF eBook |
Author | Donnacha O Beachain |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2012-06-25 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1136299815 |
This book examines how membership of the European Union has affected life in the ten former communist countries of Eastern Europe that are now members of the European Union. For each country, political, economic and social changes are described and discussed, together with people’s perceptions of the effects of EU membership. Overall, the book shows how the benefits of EU membership have differed between different countries, and how perceptions about the benefits also differ and have changed over time.
Political Parties in Post-communist Eastern Europe
Title | Political Parties in Post-communist Eastern Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Paul G. Lewis |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Europe, Eastern |
ISBN | 9780415201810 |
International Relations Theory and the Politics of European Integration focuses on the roles of community, power and security, within the European Union.
Post-Communist Mafia State
Title | Post-Communist Mafia State PDF eBook |
Author | B lint Magyar |
Publisher | Central European University Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2016-03-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 6155513546 |
Having won a two-third majority in Parliament at the 2010 elections, the Hungarian political party Fidesz removed many of the institutional obstacles of exerting power. Just like the party, the state itself was placed under the control of a single individual, who since then has applied the techniques used within his party to enforce submission and obedience onto society as a whole. In a new approach the author characterizes the system as the ?organized over-world?, the ?state employing mafia methods? and the ?adopted political family', applying these categories not as metaphors but elements of a coherent conceptual framework. The actions of the post-communist mafia state model are closely aligned with the interests of power and wealth concentrated in the hands of a small group of insiders. While the traditional mafia channeled wealth and economic players into its spheres of influence by means of direct coercion, the mafia state does the same by means of parliamentary legislation, legal prosecution, tax authority, police forces and secret service. The innovative conceptual framework of the book is important and timely not only for Hungary, but also for other post-communist countries subjected to autocratic rules. ÿ
Pathways
Title | Pathways PDF eBook |
Author | Karin Hilmer Pedersen |
Publisher | Aarhus Universitetsforlag |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2009-08-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 8771246665 |
Political and economic developments after the implosion of the Soviet Union have not been easy, nor have outcomes been similar. The different trajectories of political development in post-communist countries are traced through cases from within the post-communist region that exhibit maximum variation in terms of both background variables and outcome. Six countries - Kazakhstan, Georgia, Estonia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Poland - have been selected. Following the Tocquevillian tradition, a 'method' of indirect comparison where in-depth knowledge of a country based on linguistics and history is held up against existing concepts, six country specialists have drawn broad pictures of what characterises 'their' country in terms of political and economic reform, state building and nation building, at the same time placing developments within the international context. The book argues that the elite constellation along two dimensions - consensus about the direction of policy and institutions, and the extent of inclusion of elite interests in decision making - is specific to each country and points to the direction of future developments.
The Problems for Post-communist Countries in the Context of the European Union
Title | The Problems for Post-communist Countries in the Context of the European Union PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Congdon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 78 |
Release | 2007-01-01 |
Genre | Former communist countries |
ISBN | 9780948027543 |
Political Parties and the State in Post-Communist Europe
Title | Political Parties and the State in Post-Communist Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Petr Kopecky |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 171 |
Release | 2007-10-11 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1136766936 |
Previously published as a special issue of The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, this volume analyzes the party-state linkages in post-communist Europe alongside three analytical dimensions.