E-raamat: Communist Successor Parties of Central and Eastern Europe

List of Tables and Figures		ix
About the Editors and Contributors		xiii
Part I: Approaches
Introduction and Theoretical Framework		3	(38)
Andras Bozoki
John T. Ishiyama
Constraints and Opportunities in the Strategic Conduct of Post-Communist Successor Parties
Regime Legacies as Causal Argument		14	(27)
Herbert Kitschelt
Prospects and Limits of New Social Democracy in the Transitional Societies of Central Europe		41	(75)
Janos Ladanyi
Ivan Szelenyi
Part II: Case Studies
The Polish SLD in the 1990s
From Opposition to Incumbents and Back		51	(38)
Radoslaw Markowski
The Hungarian Socialists
Technocratic Modernizationism or New Social Democracy?		89	(27)
Andras Bozoki
The Troubled Evolution of Slovakia's Ex-Communists		116	(108)
Sharon Fisher
The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia after 1989
``Subcultural Party'' to Neocommunist Force?		141	(25)
Sean Hanley
The PDS
Regional Party or a Second Social-Democratic Party in Germany?		166	(22)
Dieter Segert
The Romanian Postcommunist Parties
A Story of Success		188	(18)
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
The Yugoslav ``Left'' Parties
Continuities of Communist Tradition in the Milosevic Era		206	(18)
Srbobran Brankovic
The Metamorphosis of the Communist Party of Lithuania		224	(79)
Diana Janusauskiene
The Russian KPRF
The Powerlessness of the Powerful		240	(31)
Richard Sakwa
Part III: Theoretical and Comparative Considerations
A Typology of Communist Successor Parties
An Overview		271	(16)
John T. Ishiyama
Doomed to be Radicals?
Organization, Ideology, and the Communist Successor Parties in East Central Europe		287	(16)
Daniel F. Ziblatt
Nick Biziouras
The Return of the Left and Democratic Consolidation in Poland and Hungary		303	(20)
Valerie Bunce
The Effects of Communist Party Transformation on the Institutionalization of Party Systems		323	(18)
Anna Grzymala-Busse
Changing Cleavage Structure and the Communist Successor Parties of the Visegrad Countries		341	(94)
Michael Bauer
Mainstreaming Extremism
The Romanian PDSR and the Bulgarian Socialists in Comparative Perspective		367	(30)
Jeffrey Stevenson Murer
Organizational Strength Divorced from Power
Comparing the Communist Parties of the Russian Federation and Ukraine		397	(24)
Barbara Ann Chotiner
Part IV: Conclusions
An Unfinished Story
Toward Explaining the Transformation of the Communist Successor Parties		421	(14)
John T. Ishiyama
Andras Bozoki
Bibliography		435	(38)
Appendix 1		473	(1)
Appendix 2		474	(2)
Index		476

Andras Bozoki is associate professor of political science at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. His main fields of research are comparative politics, democratization, political ideas, and political and cultural elites. His publications include three books in Hungarian, and Post Communist Transition: Emerging Pluralism in Hungary (1992) (co-editor); Lawful Revolution in Hungary, 1989-94 (1995) (co-editor); Intellectuals and Politics in Central Europe (1999) (editor); and The Roundtable Talks of 1989: The Genesis of Hungarian Democracy (2002) (editor). John T. lshiyama is associate professor of political science at Truman State University, Kirksville, MO. His main fields of research are post-communist party politics, institutional development, and ethnic politics in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. His recent books include Ethnopolitics in the New Europe (1998) (co-author) and Communist Successor Parties in Post Communist Politics (1999) (editor). He has also published numerous journal articles on post-communist politics.