Elected affinities : democracy and party competition in Slovakia and the Czech Republic
"Elected Affinities is the first book-length project to account for the startling differences in the course of democratization in Slovakia and the Czech Republic during the 1990s. The book uses the natural experiment created by Czechoslovakia's dissolutions to explore why some new democracies succeed and why some (nearly) fail. The comparison offers new insights into the inner workings of political parties and governments in postcommunist countries, and into the complex relationships among nationalism, economic reform, and political accountability in democracies, both new and old."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2006
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2006
xix, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780804752060, 0804752060
60798436
Democracy amid division
The accountability gap
Accountability and institutions
Institutions, voter attitudes, and issue divides
Issue divides, factors, and actors
Slovakia is everywhere