"In February 2000 the EU opened accession negotiations with the last of the countries that were to become members in 2004 and 2007 (EU-10). Ten years after the more or less peaceful revolutions these countries had made remarkable progress in the transformation processes towards democracy and market economy. The economies had stabilized and started to grow. In the political sphere party systems as a 'set of parties that interact in patterned ways' had developed. Despite of this apparent consolidation some of the parliamentary elections in the EU-10 in the periods 2000-2003 and 2004-2007 saw landslide victories of complete newcomers. In other cases, however, new parties remained marginal or failed to pass the representation threshold. The fol...
The sister volume to a book called Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies, this book o...
This thesis studies new political parties in the context of both European and national elections. It...
Although much of the first half of the 20th century was affected by major events such as war and dic...
This thesis investigates the determinants of reentry and electoral success among new parties that en...
In the last few years new parties were rising in the post-communist bloc rapidly. Moreover, many of ...
The last election in the Slovak and Czech Republic was special. It not only took place before the of...
The last election in the Slovak and Czech Republic was special. It not only took place before the of...
The preponderance of scholarly literature has suggested that East European party systems remain fair...
Although the number of studies of new political parties is gradually increasing, we still lack a com...
I argue that the costs of entry, benefits of office and the probability of receiving electoral suppo...
When eight former communist countries joined the European Union in 2004 it was accepted that they al...
The aim of the presented analysis is to identify factors correlated with the proportion of seats obt...
Although party membership has been extensively analysed in the EU Members States from Western and Ea...
Drawing on an original sample of 351 elections held in new and consolidated democracies from 1960 to...
Although research on new parties now is more common than just a couple of decades ago, we still lack...
The sister volume to a book called Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies, this book o...
This thesis studies new political parties in the context of both European and national elections. It...
Although much of the first half of the 20th century was affected by major events such as war and dic...
This thesis investigates the determinants of reentry and electoral success among new parties that en...
In the last few years new parties were rising in the post-communist bloc rapidly. Moreover, many of ...
The last election in the Slovak and Czech Republic was special. It not only took place before the of...
The last election in the Slovak and Czech Republic was special. It not only took place before the of...
The preponderance of scholarly literature has suggested that East European party systems remain fair...
Although the number of studies of new political parties is gradually increasing, we still lack a com...
I argue that the costs of entry, benefits of office and the probability of receiving electoral suppo...
When eight former communist countries joined the European Union in 2004 it was accepted that they al...
The aim of the presented analysis is to identify factors correlated with the proportion of seats obt...
Although party membership has been extensively analysed in the EU Members States from Western and Ea...
Drawing on an original sample of 351 elections held in new and consolidated democracies from 1960 to...
Although research on new parties now is more common than just a couple of decades ago, we still lack...
The sister volume to a book called Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies, this book o...
This thesis studies new political parties in the context of both European and national elections. It...
Although much of the first half of the 20th century was affected by major events such as war and dic...