Elections, parties, and representation in post-Communist Europe
| Titel: | Elections, parties, and representation in post-Communist Europe / Frances Millard |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Basingstoke [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 |
| Umfang: | XXIII, 350 S. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 1403905789 |
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Cover
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X
- List of Tables
- p. x
- Preface
- p. xiii
- List of Party Acronyms
- p. xvii
- 1
- Introduction: Representation, Political Parties, and the Quality of Democracy
- p. 1
- The role of elections
- p. 1
- Democracy and democratisation
- p. 3
- Political developments in post-communist Europe
- p. 3
- Representation and the electoral process
- p. 7
- Elections, parties, and representation
- p. 9
- The data
- p. 15
- 2
- Representation and Elections
- p. 18
- Representation in Western European democracies
- p. 18
- Communist approaches to representation
- p. 29
- The post-communist context and the founding elections
- p. 32
- Conclusion
- p. 45
- 3
- Political Parties and their Evolution
- p. 47
- Party types in Central and Eastern Europe
- p. 48
- The first stages of party development
- p. 49
- Electoral parties: the parties of power
- p. 58
- The further shaping of the centre-right
- p. 61
- The development of electoral parties
- p. 65
- The emergence of populist parties
- p. 69
- Conclusion: the menu of electoral choice
- p. 71
- 4
- Voters and the Electoral Mechanism
- p. 73
- Turnout
- p. 73
- Invalid votes
- p. 81
- Wasted votes
- p. 83
- Preference voting
- p. 91
- Conclusion
- p. 96
- 5
- Voters and Electoral Outcomes
- p. 100
- Government formation
- p. 101
- The burden of incumbency
- p. 106
- Successful parties
- p. 108
- New parties
- p. 114
- Radical parties
- p. 119
- Conclusion
- p. 127
- 6
- Political Parties and Party Systems
- p. 129
- The number of parties
- p. 130
- Parties in parliament
- p. 133
- Parliamentary factions in Russia and the Ukraine
- p. 138
- Promoting party consolidation
- p. 140
- Party systems in Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovenia
- p. 143
- Partial stabilisation
- p. 150
- Conclusion
- p. 153
- 7
- Standing for Office: Parties and their Candidates
- p. 156
- Candidate selection
- p. 158
- The occupational profile of candidates
- p. 162
- Political parties and their candidates
- p. 170
- Conclusion
- p. 182
- 8
- The Representation of Women
- p. 184
- The social composition of parliaments in the new democracies: gender
- p. 184
- Approaches to the representation of women
- p. 187
- Testing theories in Central and Eastern Europe
- p. 190
- The occupational profile of women candidates
- p. 193
- Political parties and their candidates
- p. 199
- The electoral system
- p. 207
- Conclusion
- p. 221
- 9
- The Political Representation of National Minorities
- p. 224
- Democracy and minority rights
- p. 224
- Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe
- p. 226
- The constitutional framework
- p. 227
- Provisions for minority representation
- p. 232
- The ethno-party strategy
- p. 234
- The changing strategies of the Russian Balts
- p. 243
- The Roma
- p. 248
- The smaller minorities
- p. 250
- Conclusion
- p. 251
- 10
- Conclusion: Elections, Parties, and Representation
- p. 253
- Regime change in post-communist Europe
- p. 253
- The dislocations of transition
- p. 256
- The new political actors
- p. 257
- Types of political party
- p. 263
- Representation and the electoral process
- p. 269
- Conclusion
- p. 278
- Notes
- p. 281
- Bibliography
- p. 318
- Index
- p. 343
