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THE HUNGARIAN SOCIALIST PARTY
CHAPTER 3: CZECH AND SLOVAK COMMUNIST SUCCESSOR PARTY TRANSFORMATIONS AFTER 1989: ORGANIZATIONAL RESOURCES, ELITE CAPACITIES, AND PUBLIC COMMITMENTS
EXPLANATIONS OF PARTY TRANSFORMATION
ELITE CAPACITIES AND ORGANIZATIONAL ASSETS
INITIAL TRANSFORMATIVE POLICIES: RELIANCE ON PARTY ASSETS
THE “PUBLIC COMMITMENTS” OF THE PARTIES
DYNAMICS AND MECHANISMS OF PARTY TRANSFORMATION
CHAPTER 4: TWO PATHS OF CHANGE? HOW FORMER COMMUNIST PARTIES REMADE THEMSELVES AFTER COMMUNISM'S COLLAPSE
EX-COMMUNIST PARTIES AND THE STUDY OF POST-COMMUNISM
THE CHALLENGE OF COMMUNISM’S DEMISE AS CRITICAL JUNCTURE: EAST GERMANY AND HUNGARY COMPARED
TWO DIVERGENT PATHS OF ADAPTATION: LEFTIST-RETREAT AND PRAGMATIC REFORM
LEFTIST-RETREAT: THE CASE OF THE EAST GERMAN PDS
PRAGMATIC-REFORM: THE CASE OF THE HUNGARIAN EX-COMMUNIST PARTY
“PARTY WITH ROOTS IN MARXISM”
“EUROPEAN SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY”
“PARTY OF EXPERTS, TECHNOCRATS AND PRAGMATISTS”
CHAPTER 5: THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: FROM THE FOURTH CONGRESS TO THE SUMMER OF 1998 GOVERNMENT CRISIS
CHAPTER 6: WHAT KINDS OF PARTIES ARE EMERGING? PATTERNS OF SUCCESSOR PARTY ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
PARTY ORGANIZATIONAL MODELS
CONCEPTUALIZING PARTY ORGANIZATION
FACTORS AFFECTING PARTY ORGANIZATIONAL TYPE
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS
CHAPTER 7: ELECTORAL SYSTEMS, CHANGING VOTER PREFERENCES AND THE SUCCESS OF FORMER COMMUNIST PARTIES IN BALTIC ELECTIONS
THE ELECTORAL SYSTEMS OF THE BALTIC STATES
DISPROPORTIONALITY AND PARTY DEVELOPMENT IN THE BALTIC COUNTRIES
CROSS COUNTRY COMPARISONS
CHAPTER 8: CHALLENGING EXPECTATIONS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE COMMUNIST SUCCESSOR PARTIES OF HUNGARY, BULGARIA AND ROMANIA
RE-EVALUATING THE REVOLUTIONS OF 1989
THE HUNGARIAN SOCIALIST PARTY
THE BULGARIAN SOCIALIST PARTY
DEMOCRATIC SOCIAL PARTY OF ROMANIA
CHAPTER 9: DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS