ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES SOBOLEWSKA-MYŚLIK K. KOSOWSKA-GĄSTOŁ B. BOROWIEC P. EDITORS Księgarnia

Organizational Structures of Political Parties in Central and Eastern European Countries

Our specific aim was to paint the widest possible picture of the organizational structures of the most relevant parties in Central and Eastern Europe, and to provide a basis for further comparison between them and their Western European counterparts. We focused specifically on the formal aspects of organizational structures of political parties in CEE, as reflected in their statutory rules.

In order to implement our project, we asked scholars from the region to prepare papers on the organizational structures of parliamentary parties in their respective countries, based on the formal statutes of those parties, as well as on the laws that govern their operation.

The choice of countries included in the project was based on two inclusive criteria: geographic location, i.e. the countries of Central and Eastern Europe; and political history, i.e. post-communist countries, regardless of whether or not they are democratic. These are: Albania, Belarusa, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine.

The Editors

Preface 9

Katarzyna Sobolewska-Myślik, Beata Kosowska-Gąstoł, Piotr Borowiec
Developing Party Structures in Central and Eastern Europe 11

Albania
Dorian Jano
Organizations of Political Parties in Albania 21

Belarus
Volha Charnysh, Tatsiana Kulakevich
Belarusian Political Parties: Organizational Structures and Practices 41

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Suad Arnautović
Organizational Structures of Political Parties in CEE Countries: A Case Study on Bosnia and Herzegovina 59

Bulgaria
Tatiana Kostadinova
Organizational Structure and Trends in Bulgarian Party Politics 85

Croatia
Dario Nikić Čakar, Goran Čular
Organizational Structures of Political Parties in Croatia 109

Czech Republic
Lubomír Kopeček, Petra Svačinová
Between Organizational Extremes: Czech Parties after a Political Earthquake 133

Estonia
Rein Toomla
Organizational Structures of Political Parties in Estonia 159

Hungary
Dániel Kovarek, Gábor Soós
Cut from the Same Cloth? A Comparative Analysis of Party Organizations in Hungary 185

Kosovo
Vladimir Đorđević
Structure of the Main Political Parties in Kosovo 209

Latvia
Janis Ikstens
Leader-Centered and Power-Hungry: Party Organizations in Latvia 231

Lithuania
Algis Krupavičius, Vitalija Simonaityte
Organization of Political Parties: The Case of Lithuania 251

Moldova
Valeriu Mosneaga, Igor Bucataru
Organizational Structures of Political Parties in The Republic of Moldova 277

Montenegro
Ivan Vuković
Party Organization in Montenegro: Structural Resemblance Behind Political Divergence 295

Poland
Piotr Borowiec, Katarzyna Sobolewska-Myślik, Beata Kosowska-Gąstoł
Structures of Polish Political Parties in the Second Decade of the 21st Century 311

Romania
Toma Burean, Alexandra Barbus
The Internal Organization of Romanian Political Parties 329

Russia
Susanna Pshizova
Parties with Roots Growing Upwards: Organizational Features of Russian Political Parties 349

Serbia
Zoran Stojiljković, Dušan Spasojević
Organizational Structures of Political Parties in Serbia 369

Slovakia
Branislav Dolný, Darina Malová
Organizational Structures of Political Parties in Slovakia: Parties not for Members 391

Slovenia
Alenka Krašovec
Almost without Any Innovations: Organizational Structures in Slovenian Parties 419

Ukraine
Oleksii Sydorchuk
Ukraine: Shallow Party Structures in a Volatile Party System 441

Beata Kosowska-Gąstoł, Piotr Borowiec, Katarzyna Sobolewska-Myślik
Comparing Organizational Structures of Political Parties in Central and Eastern European Countries 465

Biographical notes about the authors 485

492 pages, Paperback

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