An international seminar connected with the introduction of the Institute for Public Affairs' (IVO) publication Alternative Politics? The Rise of New Parties in Central Europe, edited by Grigorij Mesežnikov, Oľga Gyárfášová and Zora Bútorová.
14 October 2013, 13.30 – 17.30
Academic Conference Centre, Husova 4a, Prague 1
Since the beginning of the 1990s, the introduction of pluralistic democracy in the countries of Central Europe has been accompanied by the continuous emergence of new political parties and the development of party systems. Only in recent years, however, has this topic become the subject of more intensive scholarly debate. Compared to the 1990s, the context in which it is happening today is different. First, the transformation process (in the sense of the institutionalisation and consolidation of democracy) has been de facto completed in these countries. Second, by acceding to the EU these countries became part of the common European political space. In order for us to better understand the phenomenon of new political parties, it is necessary to take into consideration this changed context and to formulate different kinds of questions than those posed hitherto.
Please RVSP by 11 October 2013 on info@cz.boell.org