Government and Politics of Central and Eastern Europe

by Haughton, Tim; Malová, Darina

• ISBN13: 9781403986733
• ISBN10: 1403986738
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-12-12
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

From the collapse of communism at the end of the 1980s to the accession of several key states to EU membership in the 2000s, politics in Central and Eastern Europe has changed fundamentally in the last 20 years. This major new text provides a systematic assessment of government and politics in the region and in its main states.

Author Biography

TIM HAUGHTON is Lecturer in the Politics of Central and Eastern Europe, University of Birmingham, UK.
DARINA MALOV is Professor of Political Science, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The 1989 Revolutions: Causes and Consequences
EU Enlargement: Conditionality and Membership
Building and Consolidating Democratic States
The Politics of Economic Policy
Executives and Political Actors
Political Parties and Voting Behaviour
Interest Representation, the Media and Grass Roots Politics
Nationalism, Nation-Building and the Treatment of Ethnic Minorities
Diversity and Change in the Politics of Central and Eastern Europe

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