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Why do some governing parties limit their opportunistic behaviour and constrain the extraction of private gains from the state? This analysis of post-communist state reconstruction provides surprising answers to this fundamental question of party politics. Across the post-communist democracies, governing parties have opportunistically reconstructed the state - simultaneously exploiting it by extracting state resources and building new institutions that further such extraction. They enfeebled or delayed formal state institutions of monitoring and oversight, established new discretionary structures of state administration, and extracted enormous informal profits from the privatization of the communist economy. By examining how post-communist political parties rebuilt the state in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia, Grzymala-Busse explains how even opportunistic political parties will limit their corrupt behaviour and abuse of state resources when faced with strong political competition.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Comparative politics

• Full title: Rebuilding Leviathan
• Subtitle: Party Competition and State Exploitation in Post-Communist Democracies
• Author: Anna Grzymala-Busse
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 294
• EAN: 9780521696159
• ISBN: 0521696151
• ID: 02040784
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 412 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 142 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. April 2007

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