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Two types of presidentialization in the party politics of Central Eastern Europe.

Authors :
Hloušek, Vít
Musella, Fortunato
Webb, Paul
Source :
Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica; Nov2015, Vol. 45 Issue 3, p277-299, 23p
Publication Year :
2015

Abstract

Central Eastern European party politics offers a good example of the trend towards centralizing internal party decision making, as well as encouraging strong personalities in the role of party leader. This trend is visible in all three major spheres of party activity: election campaigning, the internal organization of parties, and governmental politics. This paper focusses on the party systems of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia to demonstrate that there are actually two processes of presidentialization that occur in party politics. On the one hand, the role of the leader is gaining importance in more traditional, well-established parties such as the Civic and Social Democrats in the Czech Republic and Fidesz in Hungary. On the other hand, perhaps an even clearer presidentialization process is evident in the emergence of new protest parties focussed around strong personalities that often make no attempt to establish and maintain a more complex internal party organization. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00488402
Volume :
45
Issue :
3
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
110357389
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1017/ipo.2015.17