Exploring Organized Interests in Post-Communist Policy-Making - 9780367502201

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Exploring Organized Interests in Post-Communist Policy-MakingThe \""Missing Link\""\nAuthor(s): Michael Dobbins, Rafa? Riedel\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367502201, 978-0367502201\nSynopsis\nThis book examines organized interests in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), providing incisive analyses in three critically important policy areas - healthcare, higher education and energy. \n\nThe four countries surveyed Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and the Czech Republic afford rich diversity offering broad empirical material available for cross-country and cross-policy comparative analyses. Featuring interdisciplinary research, the book draws together recent developments in the evolution of post-communist advocacy organizations, their population ecology dynamics, interest intermediation, the influence of organized interests and their (bottom-up and top-down) Europeanization. \n\nThis book will be of key i.