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From partisanship to abstention: changing types of electoral behavior in a new democracy
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Abstract Post-communist transitions to democracy in Central and Eastern Europe were generally accompanied by an increase of the share of citizens who do not vote. Absentees are usually persons who do not feel close to and do not identify themselves with any political party. The paper builds a typology of vot... mehr
Post-communist transitions to democracy in Central and Eastern Europe were generally accompanied by an increase of the share of citizens who do not vote. Absentees are usually persons who do not feel close to and do not identify themselves with any political party. The paper builds a typology of voters/non-voters and then examines the changing patterns of electoral behavior in Romania using statistical analysis based on survey data from 1990 to 2008. In the last 20 year of democratic reconstruction in Romania, we can notice a general decline of turnout in parliamentary elections and, in this context, a relative increase of the weight of pragmatic-individualist voters and a subsequent decrease of the relative share of party loyalists in the total share of voters. This raises questions about the credibility of the Romanian political parties and their ability to retain voters from one election round to another. Moreover, there are significant attitudinal and socio-demographic differences between partisan and non-partisan voters, on the one hand, and between voters and absentees, on the other hand. Finally, the paper reconsiders the conceptions and applicability of partisanship in the changing context of elections and voting behaviors in the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Rumänien; postkommunistische Gesellschaft; Demokratisierung; Transition; Wahlbeteiligung; Wahlverhalten; politische Partizipation; politisches Verhalten; Nichtwähler; Politikverdrossenheit; Parteilichkeit; soziale Faktoren; demographische Faktoren; Wähler; Typologie; politische Einstellung; regionaler Unterschied
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
political sophistication; rural-urban divide
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2013
Seitenangabe
S. 2-30
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Identity and Migration Studies, 7 (2013) 1
ISSN
1843-5610
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)