دانلود کتاب Post-Communist Transition: Emerging Pluralism in Hungary

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Cover\nHalf-title\nTitle\nCopyright\nContents\nList of contributors\nPreface\nList of abbreviations\nAcknowledgements\n1 The decay of communist rule in Hungary\n 1st Period The first signs of dissatisfaction: the golden age of political reformism (June 1985-September 1987)\n 2nd Period The opposition enters the stage: the succession crisis of the Kadar regime (September 1987-May 1988)\n 3rd Period Kadar\'s fall: the Grosz-era (May 1988-January 1989)\n 4th Period The advance of Pozsgay: the opposition is ready for the battle (January 1989-16th June 1989)\n 5th Period The Communists pushed on to the defensive (16th June 1989-October 1989)\n 6th Period The power vacuum: from the collapse of the Communist Party to free elections (October 1989-March 1990)\n Notes\n2 Post-communist transition: political tendencies in Hungary\n Political tendencies and actors\n Notes\n3 The character of the political parties in Hungary (Autumn 1989)\n 1. The Hungarian Socialist Workers\' Party (HSWP)\n 2. The Hungarian Democratic Forum (HDF)\n 3. The Alliance of Free Democrats (AFD)\n 4. The Social Democrats\n Note\n4 1989: The negotiated revolution in Hungary\n What happened?\n Lessons learned\n5 Political transition and constitutional change in Hungary\n After the elections\n Notes\n6 The Hungarian parliamentary elections, 1990\n 1. Re-emerging pluralism in Hungarian politics: The character of the political parties\n 2. The electoral system\n 3. The election\n 3.1 The official campaign period and the nomination process\n 3.2 The first round\n 3.3 A landslide in the second round\n 4. The role of the election system\n 5. Patterns of contest\n 6. The achievement of the parties\n The Hungarian Democratic Forum\n The Free Democrats\n The Smallholders\n The Christian Democratic People\'s Party\n The Hungarian Socialist Party\n The Federation of Young Democrats\n 7. Conclusions\n Notes\n7 Hungarian transition from a public choice perspective\n Introduction\n Conflictual versus co-operative approaches\n Conflictual explanations\n 1. Economic crisis\n 2. Gorbachev no longer backed up the old guard communist leaders\n 3. Importance of the reputation in the West\n 4. Danger of popular uprising\n Co-operative explanations\n 1. Role of the reformers\n 2. What about the rent-seekers of the old regime?\n 3. Peaceful transition and \'spontaneous privatization\'\n Conclusion\n Notes\n8 From Communism to democracy in Hungary\n Depoliticizing society\n Declining legitimacy\n Opposition within and opposition outside\n The Fall of Kadar\n The party loses control\n The background to the new system\n Prospects of political stability\n The problems of being a conservative\n Religion and nationalism\n The populist mind-set\n The foci of conservatism\n Notes\n9 Revival of the past or new beginning? The nature of post communist politics\n The nature of Hungarian politics\n The origin of the new Hungarian parties\n Does the left-right dimension exist?\n The social character of the political parties\n Electoral behaviour and party competition\n The party system: revival of the past or a new beginning?\n Hungarian democracy: social cleavages and party system\n Homogeneous or plural society?\n The party system: moderate or extreme pluralism?\n Notes\n10 The making of political fields in post-communist transition (dynamics of class and party in Hungarian politics, 1989-90)\n The research puzzle\n 1. Class structure and political fields: theory-driven hypotheses\n 2. The effect of class on party preferences and the explanatory power of social structural variables in discriminating between voters and non-voters\n Data and variables for quantitative analysis\n Data-driven hypotheses\n Strategy of analysis\n Findings: class determinants of party votes\n Findings: class as predictor of abstention from voting\n 3. Political attitudes and voting behaviour\n The effect of socio-demographic variables on political attitudes\n The impact of political attitudes on voting behaviour\n 4. Why was the social-democratic constituency unrepresented? The dynamics of institution building and the role of political leadership\n Appendix A: Models\n11 The Hungarian transition in a comparative perspective\n On the concept of transition\n The process and the chief actors of the democratic transition\n The Spanish and Hungarian cases: similarities and differences\n The fragility of the new democracy\n Notes\n Acknowledgement\nIndex