Runaway State-Building: Patronage Politics and Democratic Development

List of Acronyms

Acronyms For political parties, the letters from the original language were used to form the acronym. ANC African National Congress (South Africa) AWS Electoral Action Solidarity (Poland) BBWR Non-Party Bloc to Support Reform (Poland) BSP Bulgarian Socialist Party CBOS Center for Public Opinion Research (Poland) CCM Chama cha Mapinduzi (Tanzania) ČSSD Czech Social Democratic Party DS Democratic Party (Slovakia) DU Democratic Union (Slovakia) ECU European Currency Units EU European Union GHIC General Health Insurance Company (Czech Republic) GHIF General Health Insurance Fund (Slovakia) GNP gross national product HDZ Croatian Democratic Union HSD-SMS Movement for Self-Governing Democracy-Association for Moravia and Silesia HZDS Movement for a Democratic Slovakia INEKO Institute for Economic and Social Reforms (Slovakia) Kč Czech crowns KDH Christian Democratic Movement (Slovakia) KDS Christian Democratic Party (Czech Republic) KDU-ČSL Christian Democratic People’s Party (Czech Republic) KIE Committee for European Integration (Poland) KMT Kuomintang (Taiwan) KPN Confederation for an Independent Poland KSAP National School of Public Administration (Poland) KSČM Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia LPR League of Polish Families MFA Ministry of Foreign Affairs MITI Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Japan) NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization NDB New Democracies Barometer NGO nongovernmental organization NIK Supreme Audit Office (Poland) NUTS Nomenclature des Unités Territoriales Statistiques (EU) ODA Civic Democratic Alliance (Czech Republic) ODS Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic) OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OF Civic Forum (Czech Republic) OPZZ All-Poland Trade Union PC Center Understanding (Poland) PHARE Poland and Hungary Action for the Reconstruction of the Economy (EU) PiS Law and Justice Party (Poland) PO Citizens’ Platform (Poland) PR proportional representation PRI Institutional Revolutionary Party (Mexico) PRL Polish People’s Republic PSL Polish Peasant Party SDK Party of the Democratic Coalition (Slovakia) SDKÚ Slovak Democratic and Christian Union SDL’ Party of the Democratic Left (Slovakia) SdRP Social Democracy of Poland SDSS Social Democratic Party of Slovakia SK Slovak crowns SLD Democratic Left Alliance (Poland) SMK Party of the Hungarian Coalition (Slovakia) SNS Slovak Nationalist Party SO Self-Defense (Poland) SOP Association for Civic Understanding (Slovakia) SPR-RSČ Association for the Republic-Republican Party of Czechoslovakia UD Democratic Union (Poland) xiv        UDF Union of Democratic Forces (Bulgaria) UP Union of Labor (Poland) US Freedom Union (Czech Republic) UW Freedom Union (Poland) VPN Public Against Violence (Slovakia) WHO World Health Organization ZChN Christian National Union (Poland) ZRS Association of Workers of Slovakia ZS Slovak Green Party        xv This page intentionally left blank This page intentionally left blank Runaway State-Building This page intentionally left blank This page intentionally left blank ...