Post-Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation, and Inner-Party CooperationPost Communist Party Systems examines democratic party competition in four postcommunist polities in the mid 1990s, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. Legacies of precommunist rule turn out to play as much a role in accounting for differences as the institutional differences incorporated in the new democratic rules of the game. The book demonstrates various developments within the four countries with regard to different voter appeal of