Centre-Right Parties in Post-Communist East-Central Europe

<p>This is the first book to cover the centre-right in post-communist Eastern Europe. </p><p>It makes an vital contribution to the broader research agenda on the Central and East European centre-right by focusing on one specific question: why strong and cohesive centre-right formations have developed in some post-communist states, but not others. It also delves into the attempts to develop centre-right parties after 1989 in four nations: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The authors of these fresh case studies use a common analytical framework to analyse and provide fascinating insights into the varying levels of cohesion in centre-right parties across the region.<br><br>This volume was previously published as a special issue of the <em>Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics</em>.</p> <p><strong>INTRODUCTION </strong>1. Understanding the Politics of the Right in Contemporary East–Central Europe. <em>Aleks Szczerbiak and sean Hanley.</em> 2. Getting the Right Right: Redefining the Centre-Right in Post-Communist Europe. <em>Sean Hanley.</em> 3. Blue Velvet: The Rise and Decline of the New Czech Right. <em>Sean Hanley.</em> 4. The Polish Centre-Right’s (Last?) Best Hope: The Rise and Fall of Solidarity Electoral Action. <em>Aleks Szczebiak.</em> 5. Concentrated Orange: Fidesz and the Remaking of the Hungarian Centre-Right, 1994–2002. <em>Brigid Fowler.</em> 6. All Right Now? Explaining the Successes and Failures of the Slovak Centre-Right. <em>Tim Haughton and Marek Rybar</em>. 7. What Is the Right Way in East–Central Europe? Concluding Remarks. <em>Paul G. Lewis.</em></p>