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Book SynopsisA comparative, empirically-based study of party politics in Central and Eastern Europe that seeks to define the impact of European Union membership in this area. -- .
Table of Contents1. Introduction: Europeanising party politics? Central and Eastern Europe
after EU enlargement, by Paul G. Lewis
2. Party management and state colonisation in post-communist Europe:
the European dimension, by Petr Kopecký and Maria Spirova
3. Political parties and their consolidation in post-communist new
democracies: indirect and direct impacts from EU enlargement, by
Geoffrey Pridham
4. Changing patterns of political participation, by Mitja Hafner-Fink,
Danica Fink-Hafner and Alenka Krašovec
5. Voter turnout and electoral success of pro-European parties in post
communist Europe, by Mikolaj Czesnik
6. Patterns of party competition, by Zsolt Enyedi and Fernando Casal
Bértoa
7. The radical right in post-communist Europe: comparative perspectives
on party competition, by Lenka Bustikova and Herbert Kitschelt
8. The quality of social, partisan and governmental representation, by
Radoslaw Markowski and Zsolt Enyedi
9. (Shallow) Europeanisation and party system instability in post
communist states: how changing constraints undermine the
development of stable partisan linkages, by Robert Ladrech
10. Conclusion, by Radoslaw Markowski
