Political Parties, Party Systems and Economic Reform
Testing Hypotheses against Evidence from Postcommunist Countries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9956969 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan A Terra (Stanford University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 277-296 |
| Publication date | 2002-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Czech Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0288 • E-ISSN: 2336-128X |
| Publisher | Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (PUBLISHER • CZ) |
| DOI | 10.13060/00380288.2002.38.3.02 |
| OpenAlex | W2270096488 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 29 |
Numerous scholars whose research focuses on the developed OECD countries, as well as the democratizing states of Latin America and East Asia, have attempted to answer the question "How do institutional structures affect political and economic performance in free-market, democratic societies?" These inquiries have yielded a rich and useful body of literature. By contrast, surprisingly few scholars have produced useful comparisons of political institutions and regime performance in postcommunist countries. Studies comparing postcommunist institutional performance usually suffer from an inadequate empirical treatment of cases. When studies are empirically rich and accurate, they tend to focus on a single case, and thus lack the insight of comparison. Testing hypotheses from the literature on political institutions and the political economy of democratic transitions against recent evidence from postcommunist cases allows us to gauge variations in the institutional correlates of reform in democratic systems in different regions at different levels of development. Analysis of evidence from postcommunist dual transitions, specifically from Poland and the Czech Republic, also forces us to consider the possibility that variables and causal patterns driving outcomes in one group of cases may be systematically different than variables and causal patterns in another
Czech · Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Institutional economics · Latin Americans · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Parties and party systems
Presidents and Assemblies
The Transformation of European Social Democracy
Sustainable Democracy
The Political Economy of Protest and Patience
Democracy in Plural Societies
Corporatist Renaissance in Post‐communist Central Europe?
Economic Reform and Democracy
The End of Czechoslovakia
The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions
Developing Democracy
Presidents vs. Parliaments
Presidents vs. Parliaments
Thatcherism, Czech-style
The global resurgence of democracy
Democracy and Dictatorship in Interwar Western Europe Revisited
Constitutional Frameworks and Democratic Consolidation
Winners Take All
Constitutional Choices for New Democracies
Debate—Proportional Representation
Understanding Postcommunist Transitions
The Perils of Presidentialism
The Challenges of Consolidation
Economic Reform and Democracy
The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions
Austrian and Swedish Social Democrats in Crisis
Presidentialism, Multipartism, and Democracy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2011 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |