... phenomenon is the legacy of the previous communist regime. © 2009 The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2009 The Regents of the University of California Communist successor parties Extreme right National communism Post-communist...

...Marek Rybář; Kevin Deegan-Krause The contrast between Slovakia’s primary Communist successor party—the Party of the Democratic Left—and its own successor— Smer —offers considerable insight into the interaction between party ideology, organization and electoral success in post-Communist Europe...

...Grigore Pop-Eleches This article analyzes the reasons for the remarkable adaptability and electoral success of Communist successor parties in post-1990 Romania. The first part develops a three-dimensional classification scheme to identify Communist successor parties on the basis...

... to impose a semi-authoritarian system that further weakened the electoral prospects of the most logical Communist successor party—the Social Democratic Party (SDP). The SDP-led coalition’s win in the 2000 elections ushered in conditions that enabled a deeper democratization in Croatia that brought it closer...

...John T. Ishiyama; Sahar Shafqat In recent years much has been written on the communist successor parties. Although much of the existent work focuses on the electoral performance of these parties or has described, in great detail, the development of single parties, this paper evaluates the utility...