Parliamentary Candidates and Political Elite Formation 
Major Publications
~Current interest/work~Publications in Progress~Data Files~Electronic Resources

This is a joint project with Goldie Shabad, focusing on parliamentary candidates in the last communist elections and all post-communist elections in Poland and the Czech Republic.

The analysis is based on data on parliamentary candidates in Poland and in the Czech Republic, see LIST OF DATA FILES.

Major publications:
 
Shabad, Goldie and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski. 2004.  “Inter-Party Mobility Among Parliamentary Candidates in Post-Communist East Central Europe.”  Party Politics 10(2):151-176.

Shabad, Goldie and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski. 2002. “The Emergence of Career Politicians in Post-Communist Democracies: Poland and the Czech Republic.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 27 (3): 333-359. 


Current interest/work:

Analysis of success rates for various groups of candidates in parliamentary elections.


Publication in preparation: 

Goldie Shabad and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, The Formation and Institutionalization of a New Political Class in East-Central Europe: Continuities and Discontinuities.


List of Data Files 

Contact  for Further Information


Electronic Resources

"Political Parties and Elites in East Central Europe" is a webpage created by my research assistant to access information about elections, governments, and political parties in East Central Europe.


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