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Public finance and post-communist party development
1. Campaign funds Former communist countries 2. Elections- Former communist countries 3. Political parties Former communist countries
I. Roper, Steven D. II. Ikstens, Jnis
324.21091717
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Roper, Steven D.
Public finance and post-communist party development / by Steven D. Roper and Jnis Ikstens.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-7179-4
1. Campaign funds--Former communist countries. 2. Elections--Former communist countries. 3. Political parties--Former communist countries. I. Ikstens, Jnis. II. Title.
JN96.A95R65 2008
324.21091717--dc22
2008003563
ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-7179-4 (hbk)
Vladimir Gelman is a Professor in the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology at the European University in St. Petersburg, Russia. He is an author and editor of sixteen books in Russian and in English, including Making and Breaking Democratic Transitions: The Comparative Politics of Russias Regions (2003) and Elites and Democratic Development in Russia (2003).
Jnis Ikstens is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Latvia. His main research interests are related to party politics and electoral behavior in Eastern Europe.
Gabriella Ilonszki is a Professor at the Institute of Political Science at Corvinus University in Budapest and heads the Centre for Elite Studies. Her research interests include the analysis of political elites, first of all representatives and top government personnel, including women, and their role in maintaining or transforming regimes. Her most recent book is Parlamenti kpviselk Magyarorszgon (Parliamentary Representatives in Hungary, 2005), and she edited Women in Decision-making: CEE Experiences (2004).
Elena Iorga is a Program Coordinator at the Institute for Public Policy in Bucharest, Romania and a researcher on parties and electoral systems. Her major publications include Your MPs Vote Laws for You: Practical Guide for Using the Nominal Voting Procedure, Registering and Publishing Individual Votes on Bills (2007) and How to Lobby Your MP (2006).
Riho Kangur received his BA from the Department of Political Science at the University of Tartu and is completing his MA thesis. He is an adviser at the Chancellery of the Estonian parliament.
Tatiana Kostadinova is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Florida International University. Her research focuses on institutional reform and the role of domestic and international institutions in post-communist East European politics. She has published a book on Bulgarian parliamentary elections and articles in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Peace Research, European Journal of Political Research, Electoral Studies, Party Politics and Europe-Asia Studies.
Luk Linek is a Junior Researcher at the Institute of Sociology in the Czech Academy of Science and Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Charles University in Prague. His interests include party politics, electoral behavior and political attitudes. He has published in the Journal of Communist Studies and Transitional Politics and Journal of Legislative Studies and is co-author of Czech Voter 2006 (in Czech). In undertaking this research, the author gratefully acknowledges funding from the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, grant no. 407/07/1395. E-mail: lukas.linek@soc.cas.cz.
Adrian Moraru is the Deputy Director of the Institute for Public Policy (IPP) in Bucharest, Romania. He has a rich experience in the Romanian NGO sector and has worked as an expert on parties and electoral systems over the past five years. His major publications include Legislation and Control Mechanism of Political Parties Funding in the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania and Ukraine (2005) and Practical Guide for Political Parties Financing (2004).
Ion Osoian is an expert at the Institute for Public Policy in Chisinau, Moldova. He has an MA in European Governance from the University of Kent (UK) and is licensed in Administrative Sciences from the Academy of Public Administration under the Government of the Republic of Moldova. His major research interests and publications relate to public sector reform, regional development, Europeanization, Moldovan and Eastern European affairs.
Jan Outl is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Hradec Kralov. His main fields of interest are electoral and party systems, especially party funding and candidate election. In undertaking this research, the author gratefully acknowledges funding from the Grant Agency of Czech Academy of Sciences, project code KJB712290701. E-mail: jan.outly@uhk.cz.
Oleh Protsyk is a Senior Research Associate at the European Centre for Minority Issues. His research interests include executive-legislative relations, institutional aspects of ethnic conflict regulation and parties. His latest publications include Nation-Building in Moldova in Nation and Nationalism: Political and Historical Studies, ed. Andrzej Suszycki, and Pawel Karolewski (2007) and Real and Virtual Elements of Power Sharing in the Post-Soviet Space: The Case of Gagauzian Autonomy (co-authored with Valentina Rigamonti) in the Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (2007).
Steven D. Roper is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Eastern Illinois University. His research focuses on constitutional development, conflict resolution and human rights. He is the author of Romania: The Unfinished Revolution
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