What's past is prologue, or is it? Generational effects on voter turnout in post-communist countries, 1990-2013
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2016.02.002" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2016.02.002</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2016.02.002" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.electstud.2016.02.002</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
What's past is prologue, or is it? Generational effects on voter turnout in post-communist countries, 1990-2013
Original language description
A common theme in studies of voter turnout in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is that the legacy of communism attenuates electoral participation. It is argued that socialization and the political habits that emerged under communism impeded democratic development by not motivating citizen activism. This paper examines this claim for voter turnout in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland for all general elections since 1990 using cohort analysis on pooled crosssectional post-election surveys from given countries. This paper shows that socialization and political habit formation under communism have had no discernible effect on voter turnout in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary between 1990 and 2013. Generational effects are evident in Poland suggesting that this country's political history is qualitatively different from that of its neighbours. This research is important in highlighting that citizens' political development within non-liberal democratic regimes does not always lead to lower levels of voter turnout.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AD - Political sciences
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GAP408%2F12%2F1474" target="_blank" >GAP408/12/1474: The Origins, Nature and Impact of Political Knowledge</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Electoral Studies
ISSN
0261-3794
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
42
Issue of the periodical within the volume
June 2016
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
78-90
UT code for WoS article
000376546100009
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84958268096