Party systems in post-Soviet countries : a comparative study of political institutionalization in the Baltic States, Russia, and Ukraine / Andrey A. Meleshevich
PART I: MEASURING POLITICAL INSTITUTIONALIZATION IN THE BALTIC STATES, RUSSIA, AND UKRAINE: Conceptual framework and operational indicators of political institutionalization -- Autonomy of the Party System: recruitment into the National Legislature -- Autonomy of the Party System: recruitment into the Executive Branch -- Autonomy of the Party System: geographical patterns of party support -- Stability of the Party System -- Measuring political institutionalization: conclusion -- PART II: EXPLAINING POLITICAL INSTITUTIONALIZATION IN THE BALTIC STATES, RUSSIA, AND UKRAINE: The role of the old communist elites during the formative stage of the Party System -- The type of government and the Party System -- Political consequences of the post-Soviet electoral systems -- "Parties of Power" and the Party System
Summary
Too few investigations have attempted to shore up critical knowledge gaps about post-Soviet states by conducting comparative analyses of political institutions and developing rigorous methods suitable for cross-national longitudinal analysis. This book attempts to close a few of the gaps left by many previous publications in the post-Soviet field. It conducts a cross-country multiple-election examination of political party systems in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, and Ukraine in the past one and a half decades. The project measures and explains different degrees and dynamics of party system institutionalization in these five nations? an important factor bearing on the progress of a nation toward consolidating stable democracy
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-249) and index