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100			_aKitschelt, Herbert
245			_aProgrammatic party cohesion in emerging postcommunity democracies: Russia in comparative context
260			_c2002
300			_ap.1228-256.
362			_aDec
520			_aAcross postcommunist states, studies of electoral competition reveal variation in the capacity of political parties to compete on the basis of clearly articulated issue based programs. Notably, the development of programmatic party competition in the Russian Federation is lagging behind other postcommunist states. Over time it is likely that democratic institutions shape the learning process that enable politicians to adjust strategies of party competition, but learning is not likely variation in party system development as a function of the aspiring political elites' capabilities to solve social choice problems through party formation against the backdrop of past experiences with collective mobilization und under and before communist rule. The authors test this model using survey data of middle-level party elites in five countries and find that legacies decisively affect elite strategies in the initial rounds of democratic party competition. - Reproduced.
650			_aElections - Russia
650			_aPolitical parties - Russia
650			_aPolitical parties
700			_aSmyth, Regina
773			_aComparative Political Studies
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