Rebuilding Leviathan : party competition and state exploitation in post-communist democracies

Rebuilding Leviathan : party competition and state exploitation in post-communist democracies / Anna Grzymala-Busse.

Why do some governing parties limit their opportunistic behaviour and constrain the extraction of private gains from the state? This analysis of post-communist state reconstruction provides surprising answers to this fundamental question of party politics. Across the post-communist democracies, gove...

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Main Author: Grzymała-Busse, Anna Maria, 1970- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Series:Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
Subjects:
Since 1989
Political parties > Europe, Eastern.
Post-communism > Europe, Eastern.
Comparative government.
Communism.
communism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Parties.
Comparative government
Communism
Political parties
Politics and government
Post-communism
Europe, Eastern > Politics and government > 1989-
Eastern Europe
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Competing for the state
  • Developing the formal institutions of the state
  • The expansion of state administration : exploitation or patronage?
  • Privatizing the state : party financing strategies
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A. Party organizations in post-communist democracies
  • Appendix B. Measuring state administration employment
  • Appendix C. Anchoring vignettes.

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