Parties and Elections in New European Democracies

by Neil Munro and Richard Rose

The abrupt transformation of one-party Communist regimes into political systems holding competitive elections challenges theories of democracy by evolution. Part One develops an inter-active model of how the supply of parties by political elites shapes the responses of inexperienced electors, and what this means for the institutionalisation of party systems and party identification. The model is then applied to elections since 1990 in ten Central...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0955820324
• ISBN13: 9780955820328
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: ECPR Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"