Legislative Candidate Selection in the Hungarian and Lithuanian Communist Successor Parties
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 12968751 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Tatiana P Rizova (Open Society Foundations, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2012 |
| Volumen | 4 |
| Número | 2 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2012-05-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Review of European Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1918-7173 • E-ISSN: 1918-7181 |
| Editorial | Canadian Center of Science and Education (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5539/res.v4n2p56 |
| OpenAlex | W2029182587 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 20 |
Communist successor parties have experienced rapid and sudden reversals of their post-transition electoral fortunes. The Hungarian Socialist Party showed an anemic electoral performance in 1990 only to return to power in 1994. The Lithuanian Labor Democratic Party reversed its declining electoral fortunes in 2000 after a fiasco in 1996. A standard explanation in the post-communist democratization literature is that ex-communists do not really win elections so much as center-right incumbent parties lose them. I argue that the Hungarian and Lithuanian communist successor parties did not enjoy happenstance electoral success. The two parties strengthened their electoral performance by decentralizing candidate selection procedures and recruiting mostly those candidates with links to the communist regimes who could convincingly be cast as reformers or liberators
Communism · Democracy · Democratization · Economic history · Economics · Legislature · Lithuanian · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Successor cardinal · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Soviet and Russian History
Hungary
Political Parties in Western Democracies
Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century – And After
Electoral Mandate and Party Cohesion
The socialist‐left opposition in post‐communist Hungary
The ‘second‐generation’ post‐communist elections in Hungary in 1994
The Selected and the Elected
Political pluralisation in Hungary
Partial Consolidation of the East-Central European Parties
Adaptation of the Former Communist Parties of East-Central Europe
A Comparative Perspective on the Leninist Legacy in Eastern Europe
The Post-Communist Transition and Institutionalization of Lithuania's Parties
The New Sub-National Politics of the British Labour Party
Member-Constituency Linkages in the Hungarian Parliament
MPs in Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Nations
Democracy or Anarchy
Political Parties
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
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| Altamente citado | No |