The communist successor parties of eastern and central europe and european integration

Dauderstädt, Michael

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“…Nevertheless, there have already been several phases of research on ECE Social Democrats in correspondence with the main issues of their development at a certain time. Scholars focused on the challenges for social democracy in the region during the first decade of the post -communist transformation (Coppieters, Deschouwer, Waller 1994;Cook, Orenstein and Rueschemeyer 1999;Dauderstädt 1999;Gerrits 2002), on the communist successor parties that rebranded themselves as the representatives of the democratic left (Orenstein 1998;Bozóki and Ishiyama 2002;Grzymala -Busse 2002;Curry and Urban 2003;Dauderstädt 2005), and on relations between Social Democrats in the region and the broader family of this political ideology (Hough, Paterson and James 2006;Hloušek and Kopeček 2010;Holmes and Lightfoot 2011;Cabada, Hloušek and Jurek 2014). Most recently, studies of ECE social democratic parties concentrate on their decline that has become particularly acute since the global financial crisis in 2008 (De Waele and Soare 2011;Vachudova 2015;Ágh 2018;Grzymala -Busse 2019).…”

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Trajectories of social democracy in the Baltic countries: choices and constraints

Gudžinskas

2020

Politics in Central Europe

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This article focuses on social democratic parties in the Baltic states. The evolution of the democratic left in these countries deviates from more researched cases of social democratic parties in the Visegrád countries. Although the Lithuanian Social Democratic party (LSDP) had been developing in a similar way to its counterparts in Hungary, Poland and Czechia, its efforts to rebound after a crushing defeat in the 2016 parliamentary elections have proved to be far more successful. Meanwhile, Estonian and Latvian Social Democrats from the outset had to compete under the prevalence of right-wing parties in highly heterogenous societies. However, despite similar initial conditions, their eventual trajectories crucially diverged. Hence, a research puzzle is double: how to explain LSDP’s deviation from similar Visegrád cases, and what are the main factors that led to the differentiation of Estonian and Latvian social democratic parties? While the current research literature tends to emphasise structural and external causes, this paper applies an organisational approach to explain the different fortunes of the democratic left in the Baltic countries as well as other East-Central European states.

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Trajectories of social democracy in the Baltic countries: choices and constraints

Gudžinskas

2020

Politics in Central Europe

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“…Ponadto, czechosłowackie społeczeństwo tego czasu, z wyjątkiem małej grupy dysydentów, nie oczekiwało znaczących zmian politycznych, nawet kilka tygodni przed "Aksamitną rewolucją". Dlatego zastój w szeregach KSČS spowodował niechęć partii bronić swoją hegemonistyczną pozycję, choć, co prawda, stał się warunkiem magistralną przesłanką jej niereformowania i zachowania w przyszłości (w szczególności kluczowym następcą -KSČM) jej komunistycznej retoryki i ideologii, członkostwa i struktury organizacyjnej 18 .…”

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Far-left political parties, their origin, ideological positioning and place in the Czech Republic’s party system (1990–2015): the case of the communist party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM)

Androshchuk¹

2014

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The article is dedicated to analyzing the features of far-left political parties in the Czech Republic in 1990–2015. In particular, the paper focuses on the main among them, i.e. the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM). The author reviewed the history and origin of far-left political parties in the Czech Republic, outlined the parameters of their ideological positioning and ideolog- ical peculiarities of the Czech left extremism. As a result, it was proved that the extreme left-wing political parties in the Czech Republic are unreformed one and are used to reflect the most classical principles of Marxism-Leninism, though they have become relevant within the whole history of the Czech Republic. The researcher argued that the relevance of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia as a key far-left party in the Czech Republic is outlined with its parliamentary representation, but simultaneously is determined with non-participation of the party in the government formation, especially due to the use of the measures of political isolation (technique of “cordon sanitaire”).

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“…The KSČ M remained communist not only in name but also in many other respects such as party membership and programmatic orientation. 19 No post-communist political system in the current EU-27 includes a party similar to the KSČ M. There are some relevant similarities between the KSČ M and the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) in Germany (including populism), but major differences exist in terms of electoral results and the geographic distribution of the electorate, with an uneven distribution in the case of the PDS 20 and a relatively even distribution for the KSČ M (see Table 3). Comparison with the closest political systems in the region, Poland and Hungary, highlights even more significant differences.…”

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The Party Isn't Over: An Analysis of the Communist Party in the Czech Republic

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Peterson³

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Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics

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The communist successor parties of eastern and central europe and european integration

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Trajectories of social democracy in the Baltic countries: choices and constraints

Trajectories of social democracy in the Baltic countries: choices and constraints

Far-left political parties, their origin, ideological positioning and place in the Czech Republic’s party system (1990–2015): the case of the communist party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM)

The Party Isn't Over: An Analysis of the Communist Party in the Czech Republic

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