SPECIAL REVIEW ARTICLE SECTION Re-stating Party Development in Central and Eastern Europe? Cover Image

Re-stating Party Development in Central and Eastern Europe?
SPECIAL REVIEW ARTICLE SECTION Re-stating Party Development in Central and Eastern Europe?

Author(s): Seán Hanley
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Sociologický ústav

Summary/Abstract: After the collapse of state socialism, the potentially harmful influence of unreconstructed communist-era bureaucracies was recognised in general terms. But reform of the state was widely seen as a second-order issue, largely reducible to the rolling back of old institutions, which would more or less automatically flow from the wider success of liberal economic and political reforms.

  • Issue Year: 44/2008
  • Issue No: 06
  • Page Range: 1155-1176
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: English