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COPYRIGHT 2004 Frank Cass & Company Ltd.
Poles Together? The Emergence and Development of Political Parties in Postcommonist Poland. By ALEKS SZCZERBIAK. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2001. Pp. xvii + 280, 34 tables, biblio, index. 13.95 [pounds sterling] (cloth) ISBN 963-9241-23-7.
This book is about parties in the making. It is an admirable account. Aleks Szczerbiak marries thick description, which is precisely what we want in this otherwise quite unfamiliar case, with a sophisticated use of the existing theories and concepts of comparative politics. His concern is to describe and explain the development of the new political parties and groupings that have emerged in post-communist Poland, and to help in this exercise he draws closely on the established literature on parties and party systems. The result is a highly intelligent, informative and interpretative case study, and a book...
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