CONTENTS
A. Foreword..............................................................................7
B. Ten Years Later: Parties, Poles and Consolidating Party Systems in the Post-Communist Central Eastern
and Southern Europe...............................................................9
B. 1. Plurality and Polarity.................................................. 10
B. 2. Major Poles................................................................. 15
B. 3. The Making of Major Poles and the Issue
of Party Pluralism........................................................ 20
B. 4. Concluding Considerations.........................................31
C. Three Case Studies............................................................37
C.  1. Parties, Poles, Alliances and Romanian Pluralism,
1990-2000..................................................................38
C. 2. The Making of Competitive Pluralism
in Montenegro............................................................. 51
C. 3. Major Poles, "Third Parties" and Bulgarian
Multipartism................................................................60
D.Notes....................................................................................67
E. Bibliography.......................................................................75
F. List of Abbreviations..........................................................83
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