1st Edition
Exploring Organized Interests in Post-Communist Policy-Making The "Missing Link"
1. Introduction - The "Missing Link": Exploring Organized Interests in Post-Communist Policy-Making
Michael Dobbins and Rafał Riedel
Part 1: Population Ecology
2. There Is No Tabula Rasa: The effect of varieties of communism on organizational formation rates in pre-transition interest group populations
Rafael Labanino, Michael Dobbins and Rafał Riedel
3. Exploring Populations of Organized Interests in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe
Michael Dobbins, Rafael Labanino and Brigitte Horváthová
Part 2: Interest Intermediation
4. In Search of Civic Participation: Advocacy tactics in the energy and environmental sector in post-communist Europe
Szczepan Czarnecki
5. Exploring Interest Intermediation in Central and Eastern European Healthcare: Persistent statism, unfettered pluralism or a shift to corporatism?
Michael Dobbins, Emilia Piotrowska and Maximilian von Bronk
Part 3: Influence of Organized Interests
6. Green Advocacy and Climate and Energy Policy Access in Central Eastern Europe
Szczepan Czarnecki, Emilia Piotrowska and Rafał Riedel
7. Interest Group Access in CEE in the Healthcare Sector
Brigitte Horváthová and Michael Dobbins
8. Explaining Institutional Persistence and Change in Polish and Czech Higher Education from a Stakeholder Perspective
Aleš Vlk, Michael Dobbins and Rafał Riedel
Part 4: Europeanization Effects
9. At the Crossroads of Europeanization and Professionalization: A cross-country and cross-policy analysis of organized interests in CEE
Szczepan Czarnecki and Rafał Riedel
Part 5: Excursions to Other Territory
10. Analyzing Polish and Czech Hard Coal-Mining Trade Unions and Their Positions towards EU Climate and Energy policy
Tomasz Kubin
11. Between Mission and Interests: The evolving role of the Catholic Church in the Czech Republic and Poland
Joanna Kulska
12. Filling the Blanks: Political parties, interest groups and representation of civil society
Paweł Kamiński
Conclusions
13. Rounding up our Journey through the World of Organized Interests in the Post-Communist CEE Region
Michael Dobbins, Emilia Piotrowska and Rafał Riedel
Biography
Michael Dobbins is Adjunct Professor of Policy Analysis at the University of Konstanz, Germany.
Rafał Riedel is a professor in the Institute of Political Science and Administration at Opole University, Poland.
