PART ONE: AN INTRODUCTORY OVERVIEW
The Central European and Balkan Regions in Transition
PART TWO: TRANSFORMATION IN EAST CENTRAL EUROPE AND THE BALKANS
Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe
The Triple Transition and Nation-Building
Building Institutional Democracy
Parliamentary and Presidential Systems
The Role of Political Parties
Political Culture and Electoral Behaviour
PART THREE: THE REGIONS IN COMPARATIVE TRANSITION
Re-democratization in East Central Europe
Democratization in the Balkans
PART FOUR: CONCLUSIONS AND PERSPECTIVES FOR THE FUTURE
The Future of Democracy in East Central Europe and the Balkans
Attila (ac)Agh is Professor and Head of the Political Science Department at the Budapest University of Economics.
`A masterly study of the contemporary politics of Central Europe by
one of the region′s leading authorities. It sets the study of
post-communist politics firmly within a broad European framework
and enriches the examination of national politics with a range of
comparative and international perspectives. While succint and
lively in its approach, it provides the student with a solid
understanding of processes of nation-building and economic
transformation as well as the new structures and processes of
democratic life′ - Paul Lewis, The Open University `An excellent
overview of democratization processes in the region.... Unlike many
similar books, this study also includes an interesting analysis of
Eastern European intra-regional co-operation and the prospects of
the region for full European integration. In this respect, Agh′s
broad knowledge is very good and useful as are his series of
charts, chronologies, tables and appendices included in the book,
which will provide scholars and student alike with plenty of
inspiration and information for their work.′ - Journal of European
Area Studies `In this volume, Professor Agh seeks to achieve a
number of objectives. The most important of these is to familiarize
undergraduates with politics in the region. Another central
objective is to do this in a properly comparative manner. A third
is to provide practitioners with a more than useful teaching aid
and textbook. In essence, all of these objectives are achieved....
It should be regarded as essential reading for undergraduates
studying the area.′ - Regional & Federal Studies `This book is
undoughtedly stimulating and useful for both teaching and research,
not simply for the information it provides but for the strongly
held arguments it makes and the questions it throws up....It is
interesting- the sort of thing that encourages one to react,
perhaps to disagree, but always to think′ - Journal of Legislative
Studies
". . .this book is undoubtedly stimulating and useful for both
teaching and research, not simply for the information it provides
but for the strongly held arguments it makes. . ."
*Tim Bale*
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