Innes, Abby 
ORCID: 0000-0003-3659-5416
(2002)
Party competition in post-communist Europe: the great electoral lottery.
Comparative Politics, 35 (1).
pp. 85-104.
ISSN 0010-4159
Abstract
The political constraints created by dismantling central planning and more recently by fulfilling membership criteria for the European Union present eastern European politicians with an unprecedented lack of public policy options in critical areas of government, such as the economy. East European political parties have thus had little choice but to compete over operating styles rather than substantive programmatic alternatives. Continued party system instability in eastern Europe is a direct consequence of this type of party competition. Parties have had, in effect, to satisfy two constituencies, one informal and the other external, with the very existence of the latter inhibiting the development of the former.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://web.gc.cuny.edu/jcp/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2002 The City University of New York |
| Divisions: | European Institute |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Oct 2008 09:00 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2024 04:16 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/17998 |
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