Social Democracy in a Post-communist Europe

by Bruno Coppieters (Editor), Kris Deschouwer (Editor), Michael Waller (Editor)

Overview

This book examines the fortunes of social democracy since 1989 in the former GDR, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, setting the analysis in a broader European framework, and relating the current problems of social democracy in western Europe to developments in the east of the continent.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135200411
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/05/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Bruno Coppieters, Kris Deschouwer, Michael Waller

Table of Contents

German Politics, Vol 4, No 1, April 95

"In its examination of social democratic parties in east-central Europe, this book makes a valuable contribution to comparative politics."



Political Studies, Vol 64, 1996

"The Waller et al volume is at its most stimulating precisely when it tries to come to terms with post-communism as a global phenomenon.

Editorial Reviews

Ten studies from an October 1991 conference in Brussels examine the nearly universal failure of social democratic parties in post-communist East Germany, Poland, Bohemia (The Czech Republic), Slovakia, and Hungary, placing their fortunes in the context of the problems similar parties are currently having in western Europe as well. They highlight the move of former communist parties, safely renamed, to fill the void in that sector of the political spectrum. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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