Informal Politics in Post-Communist Europe

This book offers a fascinating, thought-provoking and ground-breaking study of post-communist political life. It is one of the first full-length academic works to explore the question of how informal structures, headed by bosses, godfathers and oligarchs, affect formal party politics and democracy.

Autorentext

Michal Klíma is a professor of political science and currently the Rector of the Metropolitan University Prague, Czech Republic. He is a frequent commentator on Czech television and has authored several works on issues related to political life in the country and in the post-communist region.

Inhalt

1. Post-communism Clientelism, Party and State Capture 2. Party Capture: Privatisation 'from Below' 3. Party Capture: Colonisation 'from Above' 4. The Clientelist Party, Clientelist Parliamentarism and Clientelist Regime 5. "Old Parties in New Party Systems?" 6. Conclusion