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Parties and Elections in New European Democracies, Second Edition: An Interactive Process

Richard Rose and Neil Munro

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second edition
January, 2010
Paper, 300 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-9558203-2-8
European Consortium for Political Research Press
$38.00

The abrupt transformation from one-party Communist regimes to democratic elections challenges theories of democracy by evolution. This book develops an interactive model of how elites and their supply of parties shape the responses of inexperienced electors. It applies this model to elections since 1990 in ten Central and East European countries that are now members of the European Union, showing what this process means for the institutionalization of party systems and party identification. The book then provides an account of each election's results and the formation and disappearance of parties in these ten countries, as well as a chapter on elections in Russia since 1990.

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About the Author

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Richard Rose has published six books on regime transformation and political behavior in post-Communist countries. He is director of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy at Aberdeen University. Neil Munro is senior fellow in the Centre for the Study of Public Policy at the University of Aberdeen. He and Richard Rose are the authors of Elections Without Order: Russia’s Challenge to Vladimir Putin and, with William Mishler, Russia Transformed: Developing Popular Support for a New Regime.

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