The European Union and Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe - (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics) by P Lewis & Z Mansfeldová

Book Synopsis

This book examines the influence of the EU on party politics in the ten 'new' EU countries from a variety of perspectives and using a range of empirical sources. The book thus makes an original and distinctive contribution both to contemporary EU studies and to the literature on CE party systems and party development.

About the Author

KJETIL DUVOLD Doctoral Candidate, University of Örebro, Sweden ZSOLT ENYEDI Associate Professor, Central European University, Hungary RAZVAN GRECU Department of Political Science, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania KAREN HENDERSON Senior Lecturer, University of Leicester, UK JANIS IKSTENS Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Latvia MINDAUGAS JURKYNAS Research Fellow, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University, Lithuania ALENKA KRA OVEC Assistant Professor and Chair of Policy Analysis and Public Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia DAMJAN LAJH Researcher, Centre for Political Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia SIMONA KUSTEC-LIPICER Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chair of Policy Analysis and Policy Analysis, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia LUKÁ LINEK Researcher, Department of the Sociology of Politics, Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic RADOSLAW MARKOWSKI Political Scientist and Sociologist and Head of the Electoral Studies Section, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences and Chair of the Department of Political Science, Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Poland ALLAN SIKK Research Fellow in Political Science, University of Tartu, Estonia DRAGOMIR STOYANOV Research Student, Sofia University 'St. Kliment Ohridski', Bulgaria