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Friday, October 9th, 2015
Stable or not? Patterns of party system dynamics and the rise of the new political parties in the Czech Republic
The text analyses the stability and dynamics of the party system in the Czech Republic after 1989. After summarizing the theoretical discussion about the stability of the party politics, the author applies selected tools for measuring the party system stability within the Czech party system environment. Besides the stability of...
Tuesday, January 28th, 2014
Factors affecting the long-term success of new parliamentary parties: findings in a post-communist context
This article addresses a gap in the literature concerning the survivability of new political parties in existing parliamentary systems. It focuses on the particularities of post-communist party systems and considers the impact that the recent international financial and economic crisis has had on decreasing the legitimacy of the established parties...
