Rebuilding Leviathan : party competition and state exploitation in post-communist democracies /

Rebuilding Leviathan : party competition and state exploitation in post-communist democracies /

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Author / Creator:	Grzymała-Busse, Anna Maria, 1970- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 274 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in comparative politics Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
Subject:	Political parties -- Europe, Eastern. Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern. Political Systems. Communism. Political parties. Politics and government Post-communism. Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 1989- Europe, Eastern. Eastern Europe. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11813992

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ISBN:	9780511279256 0511279256 0511278659 9780511278655 9780511618819 0511618816 9786610850488 6610850488 0521873967 9780521873963 0521696151 9780521696159 9780511276262 0511276265
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-268) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Why do some governing parties limit their opportunistic behaviour and constrain the extraction of private gains from the state? This analysis of post-communist state reconstruction provides surprising answers to this fundamental question of party politics. Across the post-communist democracies, governing parties have opportunistically reconstructed the state - simultaneously exploiting it by extracting state resources and building new institutions that further such extraction. They enfeebled or delayed formal state institutions of monitoring and oversight, established new discretionary structures of state administration, and extracted enormous informal profits from the privatization of the communist economy. By examining how post-communist political parties rebuilt the state in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia, Grzymala-Busse explains how even opportunistic political parties will limit their corrupt behaviour and abuse of state resources when faced with strong political competition.
Other form:	Print version: Grzyma"a-Busse, Anna Maria, 1970- Rebuilding Leviathan. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007 9780521873963