Anna Grzymala-Busse (Ann Arbor University of Michigan)

Rebuilding Leviathan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By examining how post-communist political parties rebuilt the state in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia, Grzymala-Busse explains how even opportunistic political parties will limit their corrupt behaviour and abuse of state resources when faced with strong political competition.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780521873963
• ISBN-10: 0521873967
• Artikelnr.: 22602130

Autorenporträt

Anna Grzymala-Busse is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She was previously an associate professor at Yale University. Her first book, Redeeming the Communist Past, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2002. She has also published articles in Comparative Political Studies, Politics and Society, Comparative Politics, Party Politics, East European Politics and Societies, and other journals.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Competing for the state
3. Developing the formal institutions of the state
4. The expansion of state administration: exploitation or patronage?
5. Privatizing the state: party financing strategies.