Special Section: Political Parties in Eastern Europe
Special Section: Political Parties in Eastern Europe

Summary/Abstract: The writer William Gibson once noted that “The future is already here. It just isn’t evenly distributed.” Those who approach Eastern European politics expecting to find the last century will stumble over shards of the next decade. Doctrinaire communist parties coexist with the electoral projects of well-financed celebrities. Developments that surprise Western Europeans—from the Five Star Movement to UKIP to the Sweden Democrats—are old news to Eastern Europeans, for whom mushrooming new parties and the alignment of redistributionist sentiments with social conservatism are nothing new. These same juxtapositions that sustain our fascination with Eastern European politics also make its study relevant across the globe.

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