E-raamat: Communist Successor Parties in Post Communist Politics

Introduction and Theoretical Framework 1(18) John T. Ishiyama Factors Affecting T6e Development of the Communist Successor Parties 4(2) The Effects of Organizations in Transition 6(2) Factors Affecting The Political Space 8(1) Institutional Factors 8(1) Issue Opportunities 9(2) Political Constituencies and Political Culture 11(1) The Cases 12(7) Adaptation and Change in Formerly Dominant Political Parties: Comparing Experiences in Hungary, Taiwan, and Tanzania 19(24) Sahar Shafqat The Study of Formerly Dominant Political Parties 20(5) Formerly Dominant Party Adaptation and Performance: Theoretical Perspectives 25(1) Party Change: Dependent Variable 26(1) Factors Influencing Party Adaptation: Independent Variables 27(3) Analysis 30(1) The Cases 31(1) The Hungarian Socialist Party 32(1) The Kuomintang 33(1) The Chama Chai Mapinduzi 34(2) Party Change 36(4) Conclusion 40(3) Czech and Slovak Communist Successor Party Transformations After 1989: Organizational Resources, Elite Capacities, and Public Commitments 43(28) Anna Grzymala-Busse Explanations of Party Transformation 46(4) Elite Capacities and Organizational Assets 50(3) Initial Transformative Policies: Reliance on Party Assets 53(1) Members and Platforms 53(4) Party Leadership 57(1) Local Entrenchment 58(1) The ``Public Commitments of the Parties 59(5) Party Performance 64(4) Dynamics and Mechanisms of Party Transformation 68(1) Conclusion 69(2) Two Paths of Change? How Former Communist Parties Remade Themselves after Communisms Collapse 71(30) Daniel F. Ziblatt Ex-Communist Parties and the Study of Post-Communism 73(4) The Challenge of Communisms Demise as Critical Juncture: East Germany and Hungary Compared 77(8) Two Divergent Paths of Adaptation: Leftist-Retreat and Pragmatic Reform 85(2) Leftist-Retreat: The case of the East German PDS 87(6) Pragmatic-Reform: The Case of the Hungarian Ex-Communist Party 93(1) ``Party with Roots in Marxism 94(1) ``European Social Democratic Party 95(1) ``Party of Experts, Technocrats and Pragmatists 96(3) Conclusion 99(2) The Communist Party of the Russian Federation: From the Fourth Congress to the Summer of 1998 Government Crisis 101(30) Barbara Ann Chotiner What Kinds of Parties Are Emerging? Patterns of Successor Party Organizational Development 131(24) John T. Ishiyama Party Organizational Models 133(2) Conceptualizing Party Organization 135(5) Factors Affecting Party Organizational Type 140(4) Analysis 144(6) Discussion and Conclusions 150(5) Electoral Systems, Changing Voter Preferences and the Success of Former Communist Parties in Baltic Elections 155(24) Bryon Moraski The Electoral Systems of The Baltic States 158(2) Disproportionality and Party Development in the Baltic Countries 160(2) Estina 162(4) Latvia 166(3) Lithuania 169(3) Cross Country Comparisons 172(4) Conclusions 176(3) Challenging Expectations: A Comparative Study of the Communist Successor Parties of Hungary Bulgaria and Romania 179(44) Jeffrey Stevenson Murer Re-evaluating the Revolutions of 1989 181(4) Oppositions 185(6) The Hungarian Socialist Party 191(13) The Bulgarian Socialist Party 204(9) Democratic Social Party of Romania 213(7) Conclusion 220(3) Discussion and Conclusions 223(8) John T. Ishiyama List of Acronyms 231(4) Bibliography 235(22) Index 257