ABSTRACT
This book examines organized interests in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), providing incisive analyses in three critically important policy areas - healthcare, higher education and energy.
The four countries surveyed – Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and the Czech Republic – afford rich diversity offering broad empirical material available for cross-country and cross-policy comparative analyses. Featuring interdisciplinary research, the book draws together recent developments in the evolution of post-communist advocacy organizations, their population ecology dynamics, interest intermediation, the influence of organized interests and their (bottom-up and top-down) Europeanization.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of Central and Eastern European politics, interest groups and lobbying, post-communism, transition and consolidation studies, and more broadly to European studies/politics.
The Open Access version of this book, available at: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003049562, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |21 pages
Introduction
part 1|54 pages
Population ecology
chapter 3|30 pages
Exploring populations of organized interests in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe
part 2|47 pages
Interest intermediation
chapter 4|16 pages
In Search of Civic Participation
chapter 5|29 pages
Exploring interest intermediation in Central and Eastern European healthcare
part 3|69 pages
Influence of organized interests
chapter 8|21 pages
Explaining institutional persistence and change in Polish and Czech higher education from a stakeholder perspective
part 4|20 pages
Europeanization effects
chapter 9|18 pages
At the crossroads of Europeanization and professionalization
part 5|60 pages
Excursions to other territories
chapter 10|20 pages
Analyzing Polish and Czech hard coal-mining trade unions and their positions toward EU climate and energy policy
chapter 11|19 pages
Between mission and interests
chapter 12|19 pages
Filling the blanks. Political parties, interest groups, and representation of civil society
part |20 pages
Conclusions