Csaba Nikolenyi received his PhD from The University of British Columbia in 2000 and joined the Department of Political Science at Concordia University the same year. His research focuses on comparative electoral and party politics. In 2010, he published a singe-authored book on Minority Governments in India; he has also published extensively in leading national and international comparative politics journals such as Party Politics, West European Politics, Political Studies, Journal of Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Canadian Journal of Political Science, the Japanese Journal of Political Science, and Europe-Asia Studies. He has received a number of research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. From 2006 to 2011 he served as English Co-Editor of the Canadian Journal of Political Science, the flagship publication of the profession in Canada.
* 1: Introduction
* 2: Post-Communist Institutional Design: Electoral Systems,
Parliaments and Presidents
* 3: Political Institutions and Electoral Coalitions
* 4: The Electoral Origins of Hungarian Governments, 1990-2002
* 5: The Institutional Sources of Minority Governments
* 6: The Institutional Sources of Cabinet Duration
* 7: Dividing the Executive? Party Coalitions and Indirect Presidential
Elections
* 8: Conclusion
* Appendix A: The Development of Post-Communist Electoral Systems
* Appendix B: Government Formation Rules in Post-Communist Democracies
* Appendix C: Electoral Coalitions in Post-Communist Democracies
* Appendix D: Government Coalitions in Post-Communist Democracies
* Bibliography
