Rebuilding Leviathan: Party Competition and State Exploitation in Post-Communist Democracies

by Anna Grzymała-Busse

Book Overview

Why do some governing parties limit their opportunistic behavior and constrain the extraction of private gains from the state? This analysis of post-communist state reconstruction provides surprising answers to this fundamental question of party politics. Across the post-communist democracies, governing parties have opportunistically reconstructed the state - simultaneously exploiting it by extracting state resources and building new institutions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521696151
• ISBN13: 9780521696159
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"