This article seeks to identify the causes impeding the ethnic parties to participate in the post-communist coalition governments. We conduct a cross-national and longitudinal analysis in which we take into account all the elections in which the ethnic parties gained parliamentary representation....

State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are both the economic and political bases of the Chinese Communist Party (the Party) and the Chinese state. The overarching principle of SOE reform is to firmly implement the Party’s leadership and the modern enterprise system. This principle creates a political...

Scholars of American politics have long treated parties as functional (or dysfunctional) for the constitutional system, for the socioeconomic order, or for the actors who use them. Consequently, when the environment around them changes, we typically assume that the parties will change, too. This...

The problem of assessing political and organizational capacity of political parties is stated. The insufficiency of the “United Russia” restructuring process and its organizational component changes at the current stage is pointed out

In this publication, we provided details concerning our strategy for restructuring Ukrainian second level political parties in the process of designing their strategy of organizational development within the standard methodology of strategic planning. We presented our own vision of the...

Leading sociologists, economists, and political scientists here analyze current changes in Central and Eastern Europe. Drawing on a range of contemporary perspectives (such as evolutionary economics, and network analysis) they question many of the assumptions associated with the notion of...