Michal Klíma

Informal Politics in Post-Communist Europe (eBook, ePUB)

Political Parties, Clientelism and State Capture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a fascinating, thought-provoking and ground-breaking study of post-communist political life. It is published just as the countries of Central and Eastern Europe mark thirty years since gaining freedom and have embarked on the path of democracy.

This book is one of the first full-length academic works to explore the question of how informal structures, headed by bosses, godfathers and oligarchs, affect formal party politics and democracy. The unique post-communist transition is observed as a specific historical moment of disorder, offering a window of opportunity for the large-scale exploitation of public resources in the sense of a kind of "Klondike Gold Rush." Phenomena of corruption, clientelism, patronage, party capture and state capture are topical themes that are deeply explored.

This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of Central and Eastern European politics, democratisation, transitional societies, clientelism, party systems and more broadly of comparative and European politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351332255
• Artikelnr.: 57777725

Autorenporträt

Michal Klíma is a professor of political science and currently the Rector of the Metropolitan University Prague, Czech Republic. He is a frequent commentator on Czech television and has authored several works on issues related to political life in the country and in the post-communist region.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Post-communism - Clientelism, Party and State Capture 2. Party Capture:
Privatisation 'from Below' 3. Party Capture: Colonisation 'from Above' 4.
The Clientelist Party, Clientelist Parliamentarism and Clientelist Regime
5. "Old Parties in New Party Systems?" 6. Conclusion

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1. Post-communism - Clientelism, Party and State Capture 2. Party Capture: Privatisation 'from Below' 3. Party Capture: Colonisation 'from Above' 4. The Clientelist Party, Clientelist Parliamentarism and Clientelist Regime 5. "Old Parties in New Party Systems?" 6. Conclusion