Encouraging effective democratic competition

East European Politics and Societies

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 91-110

  Grzymała Busse, Anna ^a  

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Author keywords

Competition; Corruption; Governance; Political parties

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846470522     PISSN: 08883254     EISSN: 15338371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0888325406297129     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Marc Morjé Howard, The Weakness of Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003 ).
2. For an extensive review of the public choice literature on competition as constraint, see Susan Rose-Ackerman, Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences, and Reform (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). See also Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny, "Corruption," Quarterly Journal of Economics 108 (1993): 599-617.
3. Susan Rose-Ackerman, Corruption. (New York: Academic Press, 1978). 211-211 ; and Alberto Ades and Rafael Di Tella, Competition and Corruption, Applied Economics Discussion Paper Series no. 169 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).
4. Anna Grzymaa-Busse, "Political Competition and the Politicization of the State," Comparative Political Studies 36: 10 (December 2003). 1123-1147.
5. Barbara Geddes, The Politician's Dilemma ( Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994 ).
6. George Tsebelis, "Veto Players and Law Production in Parliamentary Democracies: An Empirical Analysis," American Political Science Review 93: 3 (1999). 591-608.
7. Joseph La Palombara, "Structural and Institutional Aspects of Corruption," Social Research 61: 2 (1994). 325-350.
8. Rose-Ackerman, Corruption.
9. Scott Mainwaring, "Presidentialism, Multipartism, and Democracy: The Difficult Combination," Comparative Political Studies 26: 2 (1993). 198-228 ; and Timothy Frye, "The Perils of Polarization," World Politics 54 (April 2002): 308-37.
10. Sarah Birch, "Electoral Systems and Party System Stability in Post-Communist Europe" (Paper presented at APSA annual meeting, San Francisco, 30 August-2 September 2001). and Rose-Ackerman, Corruption and Government.
11. Connor O'Dwyer, "Runaway State Building," World Politics 56: 4 (2004). 520-553.
12. i. To use these as a measure of competition would be to assume that strong competition is correlated linearly and positively with the number of rivals and their similar size.
13. Michael Orenstein, Out of the Red ( Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001 ).
14. O'Dwyer, "Runaway State Building," 531-531.
15. Wade Jacoby, The Enlargement of the European Union and NATO: Ordering from the Menu in Central Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). For an account of the democratic leverage exercised by the European Union, see Milada Vachudová, Europe Undivided (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).