Prime Ministers and Party Governments in Central and Eastern Europe

This book focuses on Prime Ministers (PMs) in the post-communist democracies of Central and Eastern Europe. It shows how the survival of PMs in chief executive office depends on their interrelations with other actors in three different arenas.

Autorentext

Florian Grotz is Professor of Comparative Government at the Helmut-Schmidt-University, Hamburg, Germany.

Marko Kukec is Post-doctoral Researcher at the Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany.

Inhalt

Introduction: The Survival of Prime Ministers in Central and Eastern European Party Governments 1. Coping with the new party challenge: patterns of prime ministerial survival in Croatia and Slovenia 2. Juggling friends and foes: Prime Minister Borissov's surprise survival in Bulgaria 3. Prime ministers in minority governments: the case of Hungary 4. Prime ministers, presidents and ministerial selection in Lithuania 5. Puppets of the president? Prime ministers in post-communist Romania Conclusion: Weak Chief Executives? Post-Communist Prime Ministers between their Parties, Parliaments and Presidents