Left and Right in the Postcommunist countries
Left and Right in the Postcommunist countries

Summary/Abstract: By giving a short overview of the relevant politicological literature for the ideological positions of political parties in post-communist countries, the purpose of this work is to reveal to which extent these differ from the conditions and processes in established democracies and what these differences owe to. The knowledge gained will serve as a reference framework in the analyses of ideological profilation of the parties in the Macedonian post-communist society. Here, we will pay special attention on the position of the political subjects (political parties and citizens/voters) on the two-dimensional specter: left - right and conservatism - liberalism. With the use of the data from the emperical research of the political identities in Republic of Macedonia, the author has come to the conclusion that in the Macedonian case the intriguing Kitschelt's theis (of 1992) according to which economic liberalism in post-communist societies is accompanied by political liberalism (double liberalism) has only partialy been confirmed.

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