Beyond the second-order national elections model: Incumbency effects in regional elections in the Czech Republic

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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13597566.2022.2116427" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13597566.2022.2116427</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2022.2116427" target="_blank" >10.1080/13597566.2022.2116427</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Beyond the second-order national elections model: Incumbency effects in regional elections in the Czech Republic
Original language description
Literature provides four basic theories to explain regional election results and how they differ from national patterns: authority of regional governments, ethnic or linguistic cleavages, congruence of national and regional electoral systems, and second-order election effects. The second-order national election theory explains why regional elections exhibit lower turnout levels, why government parties lose voter support, and why opposition, minor, and new parties gain support. While second-order election theory provides the dominant explanation for countries with low regional power, we argue in favour of an additional explanation based on incumbency effects on parties’ electoral support. We test the explanations on Czech regional and national election data for the years 2000–2020. The results attest to a strong effect of regional governorship, with a bonus of 5 percentage points for parties whose governors run for re-election. Parties also receive another bonus when national-level MPs and local mayors are present on the ballot. © 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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/GA19-06096S" target="_blank" >GA19-06096S: Level and sources of electoral volatility in post-communist Europe</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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