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Prime Ministers and Party Governments in Central and Eastern Europe book cover

1st Edition

Prime Ministers and Party Governments in Central and Eastern Europe

Edited By Florian Grotz, Marko Kukec Copyright 2024
120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge
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This book focuses on Prime Ministers (PMs) in the post-communist democracies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). It shows how the survival of PMs in chief executive office depends on their interrelations with other actors in three different arenas. The first arena encompasses the linkages between PMs and their parties. In this respect, being a party leader is a major power resource for PMs to... Read more

Introduction: The Survival of Prime Ministers in Central and Eastern European Party Governments

Florian Grotz and Marko Kukec

1. Coping with the new party challenge: patterns of prime ministerial survival in Croatia and Slovenia

Dario Nikić Čakar and Alenka Krašovec

2. Juggling friends and foes: Prime Minister Borissov’s surprise survival in Bulgaria

Maria Spirova and Radostina Sharenkova-Toshkova

3. Prime ministers in minority governments: the case of Hungary

Daniel Kovarek

4. Prime ministers, presidents and ministerial selection in Lithuania

Lukas Pukelis and Mažvydas Jastramskis

5. Puppets of the president? Prime ministers in post-communist Romania

Laurențiu Ștefan

Conclusion: Weak Chief Executives? Post-Communist Prime Ministers between their Parties, Parliaments and Presidents

Marko Kukec and Florian Grotz

Biography

Florian Grotz is Professor of Comparative Government at the Helmut-Schmidt-University, Hamburg, Germany.

Marko Kukec is Post-doctoral Researcher at the Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany.

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