Political Parties in Post-Communist Eastern Europe

Lewis, Paul G.

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“…Economic liberalization permitted the creation of new non-profit organizations and stimulated organizational professionalization via new state-funded contracts for social services (Kolarič et al 2002(Kolarič et al , 2009). The overall direction of the new political system evolved closely in line with the general post-socialist tendency towards partitocracy-similar to other third wave democratization countries (Linz 1990;Morlino 1996;Lewis 2000;Magone 2014). In the early stages of the democratization process, many interest groups were ideologically divided in line with the main ideological party cleavages (communist vs anticommunist) (Fink-Hafner 1998).…”

Section: The Slovenian Interest Group Universe and Eu Accessionmentioning

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The impact of the EU accession process and EU funding on the professionalization of national interest groups: the Slovenian case

2018

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This article investigates the extent to which European Union (EU) accession and EU funding contribute to the professionalization of interest groups in Slovenia. Have EU accession and funding had a more profound impact on the professionalization of interest groups in Slovenia than the shift from socialism to capitalism? Our novel empirical evidence is drawn from two surveys of interest groups in Slovenia-the first in 1996 eight years prior to Slovenia's membership of the EU (in 2004) and the second in 2012 eight years after its accession. Our findings show that EU accession and funding accentuate the professionalization of interest groups. However, these processes are intertwined with the partitocratic role of national political parties and parties mediate the shape and structure of interest group professionalization via their decisions on the allocation of EU funding to groups.

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Section: The Slovenian Interest Group Universe and Eu Accessionmentioning

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The impact of the EU accession process and EU funding on the professionalization of national interest groups: the Slovenian case

2018

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“…Similarly, the greater prevalence and success of pensioners' parties in Eastern Europe seems closely related to the fluid and changeable nature of party politics in new democracies, especially during their early development (Sikk 2005;Tavits 2008). The initially somewhat blurred distinction between the role and nature of interest organizations and political parties in the region during 1990s (Waller 1993, Lewis 2000 also offered a favourable environment for the development of small interest parties.…”

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The Emergence of Pensioners’ Parties in Contemporary Europe

Hanley

2009

A Young Generation Under Pressure?

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“…However, party fission has long been identified as an important characteristic of parties and party systems in young democracies (Lewis, 2000;Millard, 2004;Olson, 1998;Rose and Munro, 2003;Sikk, 2005; on average more prevalent in these countries in comparison to older Western democracies (Ibenskas, 2014b;Marinova, 2015).…”

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Patterns of party change in Central and Eastern Europe, 1990–2015

Ibenskas

Sikk

2016

Party Politics

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While parties in many new democracies frequently split, merge, change labels, and make and break electoral alliances, comparative systematic research on how these changes are related to each other is limited. This study addresses this gap by conceptualizing change as a result of intra-party conflicts, conflicts in or consolidation of existing electoral alliances, and the formation of new alliances and mergers. We develop measures for each type of change using an original dataset that covers almost 800 party-electoral term dyads in 11 countries in Central and Eastern Europe in the period between 1990 and 2015. Our findings contradict the idea of party change as a unidimensional phenomenon. Instead we find that exits from existing electoral alliances, their consolidation through mergers, and the formation of new alliances and mergers are moderately related to each other, but not with intra-party splits. Thus, parties and their alliances structure political competition in Central and Eastern Europe relatively well. Our findings also suggest that negative consequences of party change on representation and accountability are limited, as under the relative absence of multiple and nearly simultaneous changes in party identity the electorate should be able to follow party evolution. Wordcount: 8079.

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Political Parties in Post-Communist Eastern Europe

Cited by 94 publications

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The impact of the EU accession process and EU funding on the professionalization of national interest groups: the Slovenian case

The impact of the EU accession process and EU funding on the professionalization of national interest groups: the Slovenian case

The Emergence of Pensioners’ Parties in Contemporary Europe

Patterns of party change in Central and Eastern Europe, 1990–2015

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