Rebuilding Leviathan Party Competition State Exploitation Post-Co… 9780521873963

Rebuilding LeviathanParty Competition and State Exploitation in Post-Communist Democracies\nAuthor(s): Anna Grzymala-Busse\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521873963, 978-0521873963\nSynopsis\nWhy do some governing parties limit their opportunistic behaviour and constrain the extraction of private gains from the state? This analysis of post-communist state reconstruction provides surprising answers to this fundamental question of party politics. Across the post-communist democracies, governing parties have opportunistically reconstructed the state - simultaneously exploiting it by extracting state resources and building new institutions that further such extraction. They enfeebled or delayed formal state institutions of monitoring and oversight, established new discretionary structures of state administration, and extracted enormous informal profits from the privatization of the communist econo.