Informal Politics in Post-Communist Europe

Informal Politics in Post-Communist Europe
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 223
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ISBN-10 : 9781351332255
ISBN-13 : 1351332252
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Book Synopsis Informal Politics in Post-Communist Europe by : Michal Klíma

Download or read book Informal Politics in Post-Communist Europe written by Michal Klíma and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fascinating, thought-provoking and ground-breaking study of post-communist political life. It is published just as the countries of Central and Eastern Europe mark thirty years since gaining freedom and have embarked on the path of democracy. This book is one of the first full-length academic works to explore the question of how informal structures, headed by bosses, godfathers and oligarchs, affect formal party politics and democracy. The unique post-communist transition is observed as a specific historical moment of disorder, offering a window of opportunity for the large-scale exploitation of public resources in the sense of a kind of "Klondike Gold Rush." Phenomena of corruption, clientelism, patronage, party capture and state capture are topical themes that are deeply explored. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of Central and Eastern European politics, democratisation, transitional societies, clientelism, party systems and more broadly of comparative and European politics.


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