Geography of voter turnout in Slovak local elections (1994?2018): The effects of size and contagion on local electoral participation

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F44555601%3A13410%2F24%3A43898483" target="_blank" >RIV/44555601:13410/24:43898483 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tgis.13221" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tgis.13221</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tgis.13221" target="_blank" >10.1111/tgis.13221</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Geography of voter turnout in Slovak local elections (1994?2018): The effects of size and contagion on local electoral participation

Original language description

The main goal of this article is to analyze spatial disparities in local electoral participation in Slovakia between 1994 and 2018 on a very detailed spatial structure of all (almost 3000) municipalities. To achieve this goal, methods of global and local spatial autocorrelation and spatial regression are used. Municipality?level analysis, then, provides three main results. First, cartographic presentations provide spatial evidence of highly stable patterns of electoral participation in Slovak municipalities. In the long term, there was no substantial inter?electoral change in the clustering of voter turnout in the different municipalities, except for an overall significant decline in the homogeneity of the clusters with low or high electoral turnout. Second, while there was some positive spatial autocorrelation of turnout between a concrete municipality and its surroundings, suggesting the existence of a contagion effect, this effect was not too strong and quickly waned with growing distance. Third, as especially the local elections in 2018 suggested that local political environment has its own dynamics that are increasingly independent of municipality size, a more detailed analysis of the local political context combining both quantitative and qualitative techniques should be a priority in the future.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA24-10612S" target="_blank" >GA24-10612S: Local-level democratic performance and quality of government in Central and Eastern Europe at time of multiple crises and democratic backsliding</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Transaction in GIS

ISSN

1361-1682

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

28

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

2113-2133

UT code for WoS article

001279841900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85200027525