Central and Eastern European Political Parties in Transition: Winners and Losers
Central and Eastern European Political Parties in Transition: Winners and Losers

Summary/Abstract: The transition to democracy that started in Central and Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s brought challenges that the society or the state was not accustomized to cope with. Among the firsts actors that were in charge with the direction of transition were the political parties. Indispensable for democracies they had to face several difficulties, which affected them in different degrees. Eventually, not all of them managed to get to the end of the road. The article tries to make an inventory of tasks and responses the parties were facing.

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