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- Title
Left and right in the postcommunist countries.
- Authors
Hristova, Lidija
- Abstract
By giving a short overview of the relevant politicological literature for the ideological positions of political parties in post-communist countries, the purpose of this work is to reveal to which extent the political parties in these countries differ from the conditions and processes in established democracies and what these differences owe to. The knowledge gained will serve as a reference framework to analyze the ideological profilation of the parties in the Macedonian post-communist society. Here, we will pay special attention on the position of the political subjects (political parties and citizens/voters) on the two-dimensional specter: left - right and conservatism - liberalism. With the use of the data from the empirical research of the political identities in Republic of Macedonia, the author has come to the conclusion that in the Macedonian case the intriguing Kitschelt's thesis (of 1992) according to which economic liberalism in post-communist societies is accompanied by political liberalism (double liberalism) has only partially been confirmed.
- Subjects
NORTH Macedonia; POSTCOMMUNISM; POLITICAL parties; POLITICAL doctrines; NORTH Macedonian politics &; government
- Publication
New Balkan Politics, 2010, Issue 12, p1
- ISSN
1409-9454
- Publication type
Article