Political parties emerged in Albania just a few months before the first multi-party election following decades of a peculiar authoritarian rule. In Central and Eastern Europe, the oppositions to the system were mainly staged by social movements which disintegrated themselves after the first multi-party election. In Albania, the first multi-party election was contested by political parties which have survived the long transition process. This book examines the party system in Albania focusing on: 1) the emergence of the multi-party system which combined the features of the so-called “third wave of democracy” and the legacy of the authoritarian past; 2) its implications on the transition process and on the way the political system was shaped; 3) the electoral system and the implication on the format of the party system and the dynamics of the inter-party competition.
Key words: democratization – democracy – party system – political system – electoral system – coalitions
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