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Title: Political Elites in East Central Europe
Condition: New
Subtitle: Paving the Way for “Negative Europeanisation”?
Author: Nicole Gallina
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9783940755186
ISBN: 9783940755186
Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich
Genre: Law & Politics
Release Date: 29/10/2008
Description: This monograph is a major survey of East Central European (ECE) political elites and concentrates on Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland. It is grounded within classic elite theory slightly adapted to ECE necessities. More practically, the book examines political elite composition and identifies political elite fragmentation in ECE. The author questions that East Central European political elites have incorporated democratic values and conduct. The main argument is that there is a significant gap between the formal democratic ECE institutions and political elite behaviour. This gap has different dimensions which are relevant at the domestic level and also cause problems at the EU level. Ultimately, the political elite-institution gap questions democratic political achievements after 1989. In providing a major analysis of ECE political elite structure and conduct the book points to the most urgent challenges of ECE political systems – the reform of the political elite. From the content: The Importance of Analysing ECE Elites Forms of Political Elite Formation and Activity Political Elite Fragmentation in ECE Elite Formation and Reproduction in East Central Europe Patterns of Political Elite Behaviour Influencing Political Elite Behaviour Institutional Change after 1989 The Relationship between Europeanisation and Euroscepticism Elite Systems in East Central Europe Case Studies: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary Implications of Elite Attitudes for Europeanisation Political Elites: Incapable Europeanisers?
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: DE
Item Height: 210mm
Item Length: 148mm
Item Width: 14mm
Item Weight: 343g
Book Series: Political Science
Release Year: 2008

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