Origin, Ideology and Transformation of Political Parties

Origin, Ideology and Transformation of Political Parties

East-Central and Western Europe Compared

Kopecek, Lubomir; Hlousek, Dr Vit

Taylor & Francis Ltd

05/2010

280

Dura

Inglês

9780754678403

15 a 20 dias

Applies the party-families approach to political parties in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia. With chapters devoted to social democrats, greens, the far right and left amongst many others, this book charts the party's origins, ideologies, and international ties alongside their Western European counterparts.
Contents: Preface; Types of political parties and party families; Social democrats and socialists: long way of adaptation and peculiarities of origins of East-Central European parties; The far left: family diversity and traditionalist nostalgia in East-Central Europe; The Greens: success in the West, 'fooling around' in the East; The agrarian parties: remembrance of things past; The liberals, or, the curse of the political center; The Christian Democrats: between adaptation and a struggle for survival; The conservatives: between tradition and change; The far right: between tradition and post-modernity; Ethnic and regional parties: rise in the West, remnants in the East; Party families in East-Central and Western Europe at the beginning of the 21st century: similarities and divergences; Bibliography; Party documents; Index.
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