Political Parties and Democratic Consolidation in Central European Countries

Abstract

The panel will be focused on recent developments of party systems in Central European countries in regard to democratic consolidation of these countries. The party systems experienced interesting and in some cases rather deep changes in recent parliamentary elections. The aim of the papers will be not only to cover and evaluate these changes but also to assess their influence on the quality and maturity of democratic politics in this region. The crucial relation between party politics and quality of democracy in Central Europe is based on assumption that Central European political systems belong to the model of party-based parliamentary systems for which the quality of party politics is one of the key features of the entire political system.

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