The Communist Successor Parties of Central and Eastern Europe

List of Tables and Figures About the Editors and Contributors -- Part I: Approaches -- 1. Introduction and Theoretical Framework /Andras Bozoki and John T. Ishiyama -- 2. Constraints and Opportunities in the Strategic Conduct of Post-Communist Successor Parties Regime Legacies as Causal Argument /Herbert Kitschelt -- 3. Prospects and Limits of New Social Democracy in the Transitional Societies of Central Europe /Janos Ladanyi and Ivan Szelenyi -- Part II: Case Studies -- 4. The Polish SLD in the 1990s -- From Opposition to Incumbents and Back /Radoslaw Markowski -- 5. The Hungarian Socialists -- Technocratic Modemizationism or New Social Democracy? /Andras Bozoki -- 6. The Troubled Evolution of Slovakiaâs Ex-Communists /Sharon Fisher -- 7. The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia after 1989 -- âSubcultural Partyâ to Neocommunist Force? /Sean Hanle -- 8. The PDS -- Regional Party or a Second Social-Democratic Party in Germany? /Dieter Segert -- 9. The Romanian Postcommunist Parties -- A Story of Success /Alina Mungiu-Pippidi -- 10. The Yugoslav âLeftâ Parties -- Continuities of Communist Tradition in the Milosevic Era /Srbobran Brankovic -- 11. The Metamorphosis of the Communist Party of Lithuania /Diana Janusauskiene -- 12. The Russian KPRF -- The Powerlessness of the Powerful /Richard Sakwa -- Part III: Theoretical and Comparative Considerations -- 13. A Topology of Communist Successor Parties -- An Overview /John T. Ishiyama -- 14. Doomed to be Radicals? -- Organization, Ideology, and the Communist Successor Parties in East Central Europe /Daniel F. Ziblatt and Nick Biziouras -- 15. The Return of the Left and Democratic Consolidation in Poland and Hungary /Valerie Bunce -- 16. The Effects of Communist Party Transformation on the Institutionalization of Party Systems /Anna Grzymala-Busse -- 17. Changing Cleavage Structure and the Communist Successor Parties of the Visegrad Countries /Michael Bauer -- 18. Mainstreaming Extremism -- The Romanian PDSR and the Bulgarian Socialists in Comparative Perspective /Jeffrey Stevenson Murer -- 19. Organizational Strength Divorced from Power -- Comparing the Communist Parties of the Russian Federation and Ukraine /Barbara Ann Chotiner -- 20. An Unfinished Story -- Toward Explaining the Transformation of the Communist Successor Parties /John T. Ishiyama and Andras Bozoki -- Bibliography -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Index.