Party Organization And Electoral Volatility In Central And Eastern Europe: Enhancing Voter Loyalty Paperback

India

Sergiu Gherghina

Political parties in post-communist countries have very high levels of electoral volatility. In these environments, political factions fail to establish long-term connections with the electorate and thus regularly rise and fall from the political arena.

1138714224

9781138714229

English

Taylor & Francis Ltd

07 Feb 2017

Sergiu Gherghina is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.

Party organisation is a crucial but under-researched topic in the comparative politics literature. By providing us with a sophisticated and theoretically-grounded empirical contribution to this important sub-field and examining the link between party internal structures and electoral volatility, Sergiu Gherghina has made an extremely valuable contribution to our understanding of this topic. This is an extremely impressive piece of scholarship and I would recommend it to all party scholars, not just those researching the post-communist states of Central and Eastern Europe. -Aleks Szczerbiak, Professor of Politics and Contemporary European Studies, University of Sussex