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This book examines why strong centre-right parties have developed in some post-communist states, but not others, focusing on the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
This volume was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics.
List of contents
INTRODUCTION 1. Understanding the Politics of the Right in Contemporary East-Central Europe.
Aleks Szczerbiak and sean Hanley. 2. Getting the Right Right: Redefining the Centre-Right in Post-Communist Europe.
Sean Hanley. 3. Blue Velvet: The Rise and Decline of the New Czech Right.
Sean Hanley. 4. The Polish Centre-Right's (Last?) Best Hope: The Rise and Fall of Solidarity Electoral Action.
Aleks Szczebiak. 5. Concentrated Orange: Fidesz and the Remaking of the Hungarian Centre-Right, 1994-2002.
Brigid Fowler. 6. All Right Now? Explaining the Successes and Failures of the Slovak Centre-Right.
Tim Haughton and Marek Rybar. 7. What Is the Right Way in East-Central Europe? Concluding Remarks.
Paul G. Lewis.
About the author
Sean Hanley (University College London, UK) (Edited by) , Aleks Szczerbiak (University of Sussex, UK) (Edited by)
Summary
This book examines why strong centre-right parties have developed in some post-communist states, but not others, focusing on the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. This volume was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics.
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"Seeking to fill a perceived lacuna of research on the center-right parties in Central and Eastern Europe, Szczerbiak and Hanley present six essays that comparatively explore the re-emergence of the center-right. Rather than stress historical or structural reasons for party successes, the essays focus more on such political factors such as the choices of political actors during the critical 1989-91 period, the proportionality of the electoral system, parliamentary versus semi- presidential systems, formation on the basis of territorial penetration versus territorial diffusion, and the relative ideological and social cohesion of political elites. After a discussion of post-communist Europe as whole, the studies separately analyze the center-right parties of the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia." --Reference & Research Book News
