Informal politics in post-Communist Europe: political parties, clientelism, and state capture

"This book offers a fascinating, thought-provoking and ground-breaking study of post-communist political life. It is published just as the countries of Central and Eastern Europe mark 30 years since gaining freedom and have embarked on the path of democracy. This book is one of the first full-l...

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Main Author: Klíma, Michal 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2020
Series:Routledge studies on political parties and party systems
Routledge studies on political parties and party systems
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:"This book offers a fascinating, thought-provoking and ground-breaking study of post-communist political life. It is published just as the countries of Central and Eastern Europe mark 30 years since gaining freedom and have embarked on the path of democracy. This book is one of the first full-length academic works to explore the question of how informal structures, headed by bosses, godfathers and oligarchs, affect formal party politics and democracy. The unique post-communist transition is observed as a specific historical moment of disorder, offering a window of opportunity for the large-scale exploitation of public resources in the sense of a kind of "Klondike Gold Rush." Phenomena of corruption, clientelism, patronage, party capture and state capture are topical themes that are deeply explored. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of Central and Eastern European politics, democratisation, transitional societies, clientelism, party systems and more broadly of comparative and European politics"--
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 29, 2019)
Physical Description:1 online resource (xix, 201 pages)
ISBN:9780203702031
0203702034
9781351332255
1351332252
9781351332262
1351332260

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