Democratization in Eastern Europe - Domestic and International Perspectives : Workshop : Papers

Informationen zum Autor Geoffrey Pridham, Tatu Vanhanen Klappentext This book is an attempt to tackle the problem of democratization in East-Central Europe from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Its contributors look at the process of change within a comparative framework, discussing the emergence of multi-party and new electoral systems, comparing democratic transition in other parts of the world with that of Eastern Europe and analysing that region's relationship with the Soviet Union. Democratization in Eastern Europe will be indespensable to upper-level students of East European Politics, and will also be useful for those with more comparative and theoretical interests. Zusammenfassung In light of the sudden collape of communist systems in Eastern Europe in 1989-90, this book attempts to explain their democratization from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction, Geoffrey Pridham and Tatu Vanhanen , Part One: Political Change in Historical and Structural Perspective 1. Democractic transitions in theory and practice: Southern European lessons for eastern Europe, Geoffrey Pridham 2. Groups, parties and political change in eastern Europe from 1977, Michael Waller 3. Predicting and explaining democratization in eastern Europe, Tatu Vanhanen and Richard Kimber Part Two: Emerging Party Systems and Institutions 4. Building party systems after the dictatorship: the east European cases in a comparative perspective, Maurizio Cotta 5. The founding electoral systems in Eastern Europe, 1989-1991, Kimmo Kuusela , 6. The emergence of multi-party systems in east-central Europe: a comparative analysis, Paul Lewis , Bill Lomax and Gordon Wightman^M, Part Three: The External Dimension 7. The Soviet Union and eastern Europe, 1988-89: interactions between domestic change and foreign policy, Tomas Niklasson 8. Democratization in eastern Europe: the external dimension, Adrian Hyde-Price Conclusion Geoffrey Pridham and Tatu Vanhanen...

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• Authors: Geoffrey Pridham, Geoffrey Vanhanen Pridham, Pridham Geoffrey, Tatu Vanhanen
• Assisted by: Geoffrey Pridham (Editor), Tatu Vanhanen (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.10.1994
• EAN: 9780415110631
• ISBN: 978-0-415-11063-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Eastern Europe, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Political science & theory, Political structures: democracy, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Political science and theory, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989