Establishing and maintaining political pluralism constitutional provisions on the freedom of creating and functioning of political parties in post-communist countries (Hungary, Poland and the Russian Federation)

• Authors: Peter Smuk
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In order to confirm this statement, we shall have a look at the outcomes of the Hungarian elections of 2006: the 4 parties that were already in the parliament in the previous period, gaining the 97% of the votes, let only one party to cross the 1% threshold of financing, and a new actor could get into House of Nation only by the electoral cooperation of Fidesz and Christian-democrats.

Keywords

EN

post-communist countries, constitutional process,; political parties,; political pluralism,; freedom of creating political parties

• Publisher: Instytut Nauk Politycznych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Studia Politologiczne
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 13
• Pages: 186-201

Contributors

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Peter Smuk