Governing New European Democracies

KATJA FETTELSCHOSS Researcher, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Lüneburg, GermanyGABRIELA ILONSZKI Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration, Budapest, HungaryDOBRINKA KOSTOVA Professor, Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria MATEJ KOVACIS Researcher, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubjana, SloveniaALENKA KRASOVEC Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubjana, SloveniaALGIS KRUPAVICIUS Professor, Policy and Public Administration Institute, Kaunas University of Technology, LithuaniaZDENKA MANSFELDOVA Member of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech RepublicANDRIS RUNCIS Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of LatviaERIK SOOTLA Researcher, Department of Government, Tallinn University of Educational Sciences, EstoniaGEORG SOOTLA Professor of Political Science, Department of Government, Tallinn University of Educational Sciences, Estonia

• Introduction: The Cabinet as a New Form of Government in Post-Communist Democracies PART 1: THE GENERAL ARRANGEMENTS The End of Communism and the New Party System The Anatomy of Central Eastern European Cabinets The Rules and the Operating Procedures in Cabinet An Overall Descriptive View: What Ministers Think about Cabinet Government PART 2: PARTIES AND TYPES OF CABINETS IN THE VIEW OF MINISTERS Party Government and Cabinet Decision-Making Coalitions, Single-Party Governments and Cabinet Decision-Making PART 3: MINISTERS AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT OF CABINETS How Ministers View the Role of Prime Ministers' Offices Ministers and the Role of Civil Servants in Cabinet Decision-Making PART 4: THE MEMBERS OF THE CABINET IN THE VIEWS OF THE MINISTERS Ministers and Cabinet Decision-Making Finance Ministers and Cabinet Decision-Making Prime Ministers and Cabinet Decision-Making Conclusion

' Governing New European Democracies provides a comprehensive and scholarly account of the changing political decision-making processes of "New Europe"...will become one of the standard texts in its field.' - Hortenzia Hosszu, Central European Political Science Review