Party system institutionalisation across time in post-communist Europe

Party Government in the New Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 85-112

  Bértoa, Fernando Casal ^a   Mair, Peter ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

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EID: 84879525647     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203111611     Document Type: Chapter

References (3)

1. Gordon Smith, for whom it 'refers to those features that have been essential for the way in which the system has functioned and, as a corollary, which appear most resistant to change' (1989: 161).
2. 'were often merely referenda on communist rule rather than true expressions of political preferences' (Ishiyama 1997: 309).
3. inappropriate comparisons with states with established party systems lead to misleading conclusions about the permanence of non-party politics in the states of [Eastern Europe]' (1997: 17;