Centre-Right Parties in Post-Communist East-Central Europe (Hardcover)

Seán Hanley; Senior Lecturer in Contemporary European Studies Aleks Szczerbiak
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
 9780415347815
0-415-34781-5

This is the first book to cover the centre-right in post-communist Eastern Europe. It makes an vital contribution to the broader research agenda on the Central and East European centre-right by focusing.

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on one specific question: why strong and cohesive centre-right formations have developed in some post-communist states, but not others. It also delves into the attempts to develop centre-right parties after 1989 in four nations: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The authors of these fresh case studies use a common analytical framework to analyse and provide fascinating insights into the varying levels of cohesion in centre-right parties across the region. This volume was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics.