What's past is prologue, or is it? Generational effects on voter turnout in post-communist countries, 1990-2013

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

What's past is prologue, or is it? Generational effects on voter turnout in post-communist countries, 1990-2013

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

What's past is prologue, or is it? Generational effects on voter turnout in post-communist countries, 1990-2013

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

AD - Politologie a politické vědy

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GAP408%2F12%2F1474" target="_blank" >GAP408/12/1474: Zdroje, povaha a vliv politické informovanosti</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Electoral Studies

ISSN

0261-3794

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

42

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

June 2016

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

13

Strana od-do

78-90

Kód UT WoS článku

000376546100009

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-84958268096