The paper discusses recent developments of German fiscal federalism—especially the Länderfinanzausgleich, i.e. Germany’s unique system of horizontal equalization. A ruling by the Constitutional Court has cracked the status quo, and the parties involved (federation and states) have begun a process of bargaining on a new equalization system. This process is assessed against the background of rece...

Th e paper analyses the possibilities to develop communist heritage tourism in Bulgaria. After a review of related literature, the paper identifi es fi ve characteristics of communist heritage tourism: ideologically overburdened type of tourism, controversial, represents a limited time period of history, represents a personality cult, concentration of resources in places related with communist ...

During the three decades since Albania overthrew communist dictatorial system and began its democratic changes, existence of a line thought in Albanian society has been noted, which tends to explain behaviour politicians during transition period based on assumption “communist mentality” carried by them. This often dominant reflected media public space as form “main” explanation show many failur...

The main objective of the work described here was to identify core phenomena and processes relating post-1989 voting behavior in selected CEECs (Poland, Romania Lithuania). Political economic changes commencing some 30 years ago triggered process transformation post-communist countries from an economy that centrally planned steered, towards one based around market liberal open global processes....

Purpose – The paper investigates the utility of economic theory for post-Communist economic transformation. It serves to explain the main reasons for market reform failure in different post-Communist countries. Design/methodology/approach – A literature review suggests that after the collapse of the Communist system there was no economic theory of transition to market. Whenever one considers th...

As the Communist and Congress Parties continue their downfall in West Bengal, two parties relying heavily on identity politics are entrenching positions as main political forces of state: Trinamool with its pro-Bengali discourse Bharatiya Janata Party pro-Hindu discourse. Yet, we know little about how mobilization these different regional religious identities interact potentially conflicting ma...

The research entitled "The political dispute between the government of Jaafar Muhammad Nimeiri and Sudanese Communist Party its impact on internal situation 1970-1971". It includes events that Sudan experienced during rule Nimeiri, as well conflicts parties their in Sudan, which has become a subject. problems instability due to these deteriorating conditions what worsened was coup against led b...

With the disappearance of the two largest political parties and the emergence of several new ones over the last decade, a new electoral map of Italy has emerged. We explore how these ongoing changes to party politics in Italy were manifest spatially between 1987 and 1996. In particular, the geographical aspects of party replacement are examined in central and northern Italy. First, the parties ...

Key points:  At 24.5%, turnout was the second lowest in any post-1989 Polish national election and nearly 20% down on the most recent 2007 parliamentary poll.  The main governing party, the centre-right Civic Platform party, won a clear and overwhelming victory, increasing its share of the vote compared to 2007.  The right-wing Law and Justice party confirmed its position as the main opposit...

We use a difference-in-differences strategy that compares Communist with Western European countries to test the effect of the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe on the flow of book translations between countries. We find that translations of Western European titles into former non-Soviet Communist countries increased by a factor of eight with the fall of Communism and reached Western level...