Eurocommunism’: Implications for East and West examines the rise of Eurocommunist movements across Western Europe and their political significance during the late 20th century. Written by Roy Godson and Stephen Haseler, the book analyzes the ideological evolution of Eurocommunist parties, their relations with the Soviet Union, their influence on domestic politics, and the implications for Eas…
This book provides an excellent account of how political parties in Western Europe are perceiving and are responding to these contemporary challenges of electoral dealignment. Each chapter employs a common format to present and compare the changing strategies of established parties and party systems in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, and Ireland. The result is …
An account of the party systems that have evolved in Eastern Europe since the revolutions of the late 1980s. The new political systems of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria are analyzed and compared, along with the most recent developments in East Germany