Comparison of Left Parties in Central Europe. Some Causes of Different Successfulness.
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Comparison of Left Parties in Central Europe. Some Causes of Different Successfulness.
Original language description
A great number of works that deal with party systems of the Central and Eastern European countries focus on communist successor parties. This paper aims to illuminate some causes of different development of identity of the communist successor parties inPoland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and in Slovakia. The paper identifies as the main causes above all 1) readiness of a segment of the communist party leadership, i.e. the party reformists, to change the party orientation in direction of social democracy and 2) willingness of some party members to give support to such a change. Also, time played an important role in the process in that a new party outlook had to be adopted as soon as the former political system collapsed. The ex-communists in Hungary,and in Poland serve examples of successful identity transformation, which lead to early return to the government. As far as the Czech Republic is concerned, absence of a reform wing in the Communist Party before 1989 and a lack of willing
Czech name
Komparace levicových stran ve střední Evropě. K některým příčinám jejich rozdílné úspěšnosti.
Czech description
Článek se zabývá vývojem a rozdílnou úspěšností levicových stran ve střední Evropě (především pak nástupnických komunistických stran).
Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AD - Political sciences
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)
Others
Publication year
2005
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Kopeček, Lubomír (ed.): Trajectories of the Left. Social Democratic and (Ex-)Communist Parties in Contemporary Europe: Between Past and Future
ISBN
80-7325-078-0
Number of pages of the result
9
Pages from-to
109-117
Number of pages of the book
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Publisher name
CDK a ISPO
Place of publication
Brno
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