ELECTIONS AND PARTIES IN NEW EUROPEAN DEMOCRACIES
| Title: | ELECTIONS AND PARTIES IN NEW EUROPEAN DEMOCRACIES |
| Author: | RICHARD ROSE & NEIL MUNRO |
| Description: | An essential reference work covering elections in Central and Eastern Europe, Rose and Munro provide an invaluable volume. Packed with detail and hard-to-find facts, the work is authoritative, clear, and timely. - Pippa Norris, Harvard University Richard Rose and Neil Munro have produced an essential reference work for election experts: a definitive text covering election laws, parties, and election results in 11 post-Communist democracies. As a bonus, they offer an innovative model relating the supply of election laws and parties by political elites to the demands of voters. Applying the model in Eastern Europe shows that the institutionalization of free elections leaves democracy incomplete as long as there is a floating system of parties and voters without trust. - Arend Lijphart, University of California, San Diego 102 Tables 309 pages 13 Figures Just published by CQ Press, Washington DC. Contact the Publications Secretary o.j.robertson@abdn.ac.uk to be alerted when the book is available in Europe. ContentsPreface: Free Elections in a Novel SettingPART ONE: THE FRAMEWORK OF COMPETITION 1. Elite Supply and Popular Demands: An Interactive Model Democratization Backwards--and in a Hurry. Understanding Election Outcomes. 2. Electoral Systems Compared Electing Representatives. Choosing a President. Effects of Electoral Systems. 3. Parties without Civil Society A Big Supply of Parties. A Variety of Party Appeals. Fragmented, Multi-Dimensional Party Systems. 4. Voters without Trust A Legacy of Distrust. Political Values without Parties. Clearcut and Fuzzy-Focus Outlooks. 5. Competition Without Institutionalization Institutionalization in Theory. Stable Election Laws. Floating System of Parties. An Indefinite Disequilibrium. References PART TWO: NATIONAL ELECTION RESULTS Conventions in Reporting Results 6. Bulgaria 7. Czechoslovakia, 1990-92 8. Czech Republic 9. Slovakia 10. Estonia 11. Hungary 12. Latvia 13. Lithuania 14. Poland 15. Romania 16. Russia 17. Slovenia For more details HARDBACK COPY |
| Price: | £95.50 |
| Postal Address: | CSPP Publications, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1XQ, UK |