El objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar el rol del movimiento sindical, de los pobladores y de los empresarios en el proceso de pretransicion a la democracia en Chile, asi como sugerir algunas hipotesis sobre su posible comportamiento cuando dicha transicion tenga lugar

The survival and regeneration of the Croatian Democratic Union in the aftermath of the death of the party's authoritarian leader, Croatian president Franjo Tudjman, demonstrates the crucial role of elites and party organization in determining the trajectory of post-communist party system...

We argue that the decline of Social Democratic parties is partly caused by the emergence of a 'second generation of new right-wing parties'. While the existing literature on new right parties has primarily seen these parties as anti-immigrant and anti-establishment, we suggest that this only...