Institutional Design And Party Development in Post Communist States. The Key- Role of National Parliaments (English Version)

The topic approached in this book was inspired by a course on Central European Politics in the fall semester of the academic year 2005- 2006, attended at Central European University, Budapest. In this respect I am grateful to Karen Henderson, the course instructor, for being the first to encourage me to develop the measurement of presidential powers in the former states of Warsaw Pact countries into a more complex framework of analysis. Her numerous advices shaped the evaluation of the checks and balances system, often questioning aspects of internal and external validity of the claims I intended to make.