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Author Meleshevich, Andrey A

Title Party systems in post-Soviet countries : a comparative study of political institutionalization in the Baltic States, Russia, and Ukraine / Andrey A. Meleshevich
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 262 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Notes Print version record
Subject Political parties -- Baltic States -- History
Political parties -- Russia (Federation) -- History
Political parties -- Ukraine -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Parties.
Political parties
Politics and government
SUBJECT Baltic States -- Politics and government -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96000041
Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006576
Ukraine -- Politics and government -- 1991-2014
Subject Baltic States
Russia (Federation)
Ukraine
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006049484
ISBN 9780230603615
0230603610
9781349535149
1349535141
1403974497
9781403974495