The article attempts to identify major factors of the nationalization of the vote in contemporary Russia using the two level approach: the between- and within-region. The former compares regions as units of analysis while the latter additionally takes into account voting in municipalities to obtain levels of voting homogeneity within the regions. The study uses data from the last 2012e2016 national-regional electoral cycle investigating both federal and regional election results. Following Ishiyama (2002) for the between-region level of analysis the Regional Party Vote Inequality index has been utilized. The Party Nationalization Score proposed by Jones and Mainwaring (2003) has been applied to the measurement of voting territorial diversity at the within-region level. The results show that regional political factors may be still considered as major drivers of the nationalization of the vote as it did in the 1990s. The difference is that in politically recentralized Russia non-competitive regions headed by politically strong governors provides between-region inequality rather than contributing to nationalization. At the same time, the similarity continues in the ability of governors' “political machines” to contribute homogeneity of the vote, but only within their regions.
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December 2019
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October 22 2019
The dual logic of Russia's party system nationalization
Yuriy Gaivoronsky
Laboratory for Regional Political Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
E-mail address:guyvoronskiy@hse.ru.
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E-mail address:guyvoronskiy@hse.ru.
Communist and Post-Communist Studies (2019) 52 (4): 323–330.
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Yuriy Gaivoronsky; The dual logic of Russia's party system nationalization. Communist and Post-Communist Studies 1 December 2019; 52 (4): 323–330. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2019.10.003
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