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| Author: | Toole, J. |
| Title: | The historical foundations of party politics in post-communist East Central Europe |
| Journal: | Europe-Asia Studies
2007 : JUN, VOL. 59:4, p. 541-566 |
| Index terms: | politics models history Eastern Europe Central Europe |
| Freeterms: | post-communism |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This article deals with how plausible deep historical explanations are in accounting for the emergence of particular types of parties in post-communist (here as: p-comm.) Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic. Based on testing hypotheses of Lipset and Rokkan's model of cleavage and party development, it is among others found that the historical foundations of p-comm. parties may be deeper than most analyses assume. While a full understanding of the emergence of p-comm. party types requires historical and non-historical explanations, historical ones should not be underestimated. |
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