1st Edition
Poles Together? The Emergence and Development of Political Parties in Postcommunist Poland
By Aleks Szczerbiak
Copyright 2001
300 Pages
by
Central European University Press
This book fills a gap in the existing literature on how parties and party systems are developing in the new democracies of post-communist Central and Eastern Europe. It provides the first detailed, empirically based examination from a structural and organizational perspective of the new parties and political groupings that have emerged in Poland since the collapse of communism in 1989. The... Read more
List of Tables, Preface and Acknowledgments, Notes, List of Abbreviations, Chapter One: Introduction, Chapter Two: The Distribution of Power within Parties, Chapter Three: The Party Machine, Chapter Four: Parties and Their Electorates, Chapter Five: Parties as Membership Organizations, Chapter Six: Parties and the State, Chapter Seven: Conclusion, Appendix 1 : Parties and Organizations in the Democratic Left Alliance, May 1997, Appendix 2: Parties and Organizations in Solidarity Electoral Action, March 1997, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Aleks Szczerbiak is Professor of Politics and Contemporary European Studies at the University of Sussex. He is currently Director of Doctoral Studies for Law, Politics and Sociology and was Co-Director of the Sussex European Institute (SEI) from 2006-14.
