Back to matchesWe found a matchYour institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.TitleIntroduction to Special Section, "Parties and Party System Development in Post-communist Europe".AuthorsThorlakson, LoriAbstractThis article is part of the special cluster titled Parties and Democratic Linkage in Post-Communist Europe, guest edited by Lori Thorlakson, and will be published in the August 2018 issue of EEPSSubjectsEASTERN Europe; POSTCOMMUNIST societies; POLITICAL parties; POLITICAL competition; POLITICAL development; EAST European Politics &; Societies (Periodical)PublicationEast European Politics & Societies, 2018, Vol 32, Issue 3, p411ISSN0888-3254Publication typeArticleDOI10.1177/0888325418762052