Parliamentary Elections and Party Lanscape in the Visegrád Group Countries

The countries of the so-called Visegrád Group (V4)were already a relatively common topic in comparative political science in the 1990s. Not only are they close both geographically and in terms of their historical and political developments, a shared heritage of 40 years of communist rule meant that they (and other Central and Eastern European states) were experiencing a complicated and often painful threefold transition affecting their politics, economics, social structures and processes.