Poles Together?

Poles Together?

The Emergence and Development of Political Parties in Postcommunist Poland

  • Auteur: Szczerbiak, Aleks
  • Éditeur: Central European University Press
  • ISBN: 9789633864630
  • Lieu de publication:  Budapest , Hungary
  • Année de publication électronique: 2001
  • Mois : Janvier
  • Pages: 300
  • DDC: 324.2438
  • Langue: Anglais

This book fills a gap in the existing literature on how parties and party systems are developing in the new democracies of post-communist Central and Eastern Europe. It provides the first detailed, empirically based examination from a structural and organizational perspective of the new parties and political groupings that have emerged in Poland since the collapse of communism in 1989.

The author develops his argument on the basis of an analysis of five key structural and organizational variables: the internal distribution of power and modes of representation within the parties; the role of the party bureaucracy; the relationship between parties and their electorates; the development of parties as membership organizations; and the relationship between parties and the state.

As the first in-depth, empirically grounded single-country study of party structure and organization in post-communist Eastern Europe, the book provides an opportunity to draw broader conclusions about the process of Central and East European party development and will contribute significantly towards the development of a post-communist political party model. Szczerbiak sheds light on an important aspect of the more general process of post-communist democratization in the region and provides a major contribution to one of the least-explored areas of transition.

  • Cover
  • Front matter
    • Title page
    • Copyright page
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • List of Tables
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
    • Notes
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Chapter One: Introduction
    • Contemporary Party Models
    • Party Development in Postcommunist Poland
    • Modeling Party Structure and Organization in Postcommunist Poland
    • Notes
  • Chapter Two: The Distribution of Power within Parties
    • Party Decisionmaking Structures
    • Parliamentary-Extraparliamentary Party Relations
    • Leaders and Members
    • Local-National Relations
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
  • Chapter Three: The Party Machine
  • The Party Central-Office Bureaucracy
  • The Parliamentary Party Bureaucracy
  • The Local Party Machine
  • The Professionalization of Parties
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Chapter Four: Parties and Their Electorates
    • Party Electoral Strategies
    • The 1997 Parliamentary Election Campaign
    • Party Electoral Profiles
    • The Role of Party Leaders
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
  • Chapter Five: Parties as Membership Organizations
    • Party Membership and Local Implantation
    • Party Ancillary Organizations and Interest-Group Relations
    • The Role and Functions of Local Party Branches
    • Demand-Side Factors: Party Organizational Strategies
    • Supply-Side Factors: Popular Attitudes toward Parti
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
  • Chapter Six: Parties and the State
    • The State and Party Funding
    • The State and Party Media Access
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
  • Chapter Seven: Conclusion
    • Notes
  • Appendix 1 : Parties and Organizations in the Democratic Left Alliance, May 1997
  • Appendix 2: Parties and Organizations in Solidarity Electoral Action, March 1997
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • back cover

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