Exploring Organized Interests in Post-Communist Policy-Making : The "Missing Link" (Edition 1)
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This book examines organized interests in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), providing incisive analyses in three critically important policy areas - healthcare, higher education and energy. The four countries surveyed – Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and the Czech Republic – afford rich diversity offering broad empirical material available for cross-country and cross-policy comparative analyses. Featuring interdisciplinary research, the book draws together recent developments in the evolution of post-communist advocacy organizations, their population ecology dynamics, interest intermediation, the influence of organized interests and their (bottom-up and top-down) Europeanization. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of Central and Eastern European politics, interest groups and lobbying, post-communism, transition and consolidation studies, and more broadly to European studies/politics.
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Political Science / Political Process / Political Parties, bisacsh:POL015000, Political Science / World / European, bisacsh:POL058000, Political Science / World / Russian & Former Soviet Union, bisacsh:POL060000