In: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
Economic conditions and election results -- Comparative cross-regional analysis -- Paired case studies -- The incumbency hypothesis -- The new regime hypothesis -- The old regime hypothesis -- Comparative analysis -- Economic voting and postcommunist politics.
In: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
This book examines the effect of economic conditions on election results in five post-communist countries - Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic - in the first decade of post-communist elections. It is the first book length study of economic voting outside of established democracies
In: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
This study demonstrates that in a time of massive change characterized by the emergence of entirely new political systems and a fundamental reorganization of economic life, systematic patterns of economic conditions affecting election results at the aggregate level can in fact be identified during the first decade of post-communist elections in five post-communist countries: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. A variety of theoretical arguments concerning the conditions in which these effects are more or less likely to be present are also proposed and tested. Analysis is conducted using an original data set of regional level economic, demographic, and electoral indicators, and features both broadly based comparative assessments of the findings across all twenty elections as well as more focused case study analyses of pairs of individual elections
In: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
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