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Seeking to fill a perceived lacuna of research on the center-right parties in Central and Eastern Europe, Szczerbiak (contemporary European Studies, U. of Sussex, UK) and Hanley (East European politics, U. College London, UK) present six essays that comparatively explore the re-emergence of the center-right. Rather than stress historical or structural reasons for party successes, the essays focus more on such political factors such as the choices of political actors during the critical 1989-91 period, the proportionality of the electoral system, parliamentary versus semi-presidential systems, formation on the basis of territorial penetration versus territorial diffusion, and the relative ideological and social cohesion of political elites. After a discussion of post-communist Europe as whole, the studies separately analyze the center-right parties of the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
