Scholars of post-communist politics often argue that parties in new democracies lack strong organizations - sizable membership, local presence, and professional

Margit Tavits demonstrates that the successful establishment of a political party in a new democracy crucially depends on the strength of its organization.

This is a study of party development in the post-communist world. Based on extensive fieldwork in Bulgaria and Hungary, as well as aggregate data from twelve po

The question of how political parties are, and ought to be, regulated has assumed an increased importance in recent years, both within the scholarly community a

The editor of this book has brought together contributions designed to capture the essence of post-communist politics in East-Central Europe and Eurasia. Rather