Candidate quality across different orders of elections: the cases of the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/26482789:_____/13:#0000488

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2013.779257" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2013.779257</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2013.779257" target="_blank" >10.1080/21599165.2013.779257</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Candidate quality across different orders of elections: the cases of the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Original language description

Elections to the European Parliament fall within the category of second-order elections (SOEs). Because these types of elections do not lead to the formation of government, there is less at stake and, consequently, voters behave differently when castingvotes. But do also political parties also behave as if there is less at stake as voters do? This article draws on an original dataset on the political experience of party candidates in the Czech Republic and Slovakia to explicitly link the SOE model to independent actions of political parties. The results show that political parties indeed nominate higher quality candidates to the first-order arena, where more is at stake. Moreover, parties in government in first-order arena react to domestic situationand nominate lower quality candidates to EP elections than parties in opposition.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AD - Political sciences

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

East European Politics

ISSN

2159-9165

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

29

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

152-174

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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