... and condition of World War II monuments and vote shares for different political options. The dataset places more than 1,000 historical monuments into roughly 500 geographical units for a variety of elections and referenda in the last decade. The empirical results point to a strong association between...

... patterns during presidential elections. The development of this new model is driven by the need for a nuanced and dynamic approach that captures the complexities of media environments in varied political settings. Traditional methodologies, while invaluable, often depend on broad, aggregate measures...

... of the special issue’s aims is to enrich the theoretical debate about political participation in new democracies and transition countries during the pandemic. political participation pandemic citizens political parties elections The COVID-19 regulations entailed a challenge to political...

...Paul D’Anieri Of Ukraine’s six presidential transitions, only those in 2010 and 2019 proceeded entirely as envisioned in the constitution. In several cases, elections and transitions resulted from ad hoc arrangements made to address political crises. In one case, street protests forced...

... took toward their online campaign. By looking into the online approaches of eight parliamentary-represented political parties in Bulgaria from the three parliamentary elections in 2021, the analysis shows that the type of online campaigns of parties depends, to a large extent, on the way parties use...

... voters in Croatia and Serbia conducted on a dedicated mobile app and web platform directly preceding parliamentary elections that took place in these two countries during the summer of 2020. This survey was part of our larger project tracking political competition, public discourse, and conspiracy...

...Dragoș Dragoman; Sabina-Adina Luca The election of a Socialist and pro-Russian candidate in December 2016 as president of Moldova marks a new turn in Moldovan politics. This is in contrast with the pro-Western attitudes of the previous government. Political instability and changing international...

... ). In these types of complex local systems, the elected mayors play a key role. It is for this reason that, in Romania, political parties must have a solid territorial base of support if they are to have any hope of achieving success. Local/territorial power networks are not based on ideology, but rather...

...-candidates themselves and their financial backers behind the scenes may become exposed to competitive pressures resulting in violence during election years, because their competitors may find it hard to secure their position in power through the existing legal or informal non-violent means. To test whether...

...Petr Voda; Michal Pink This article explains the basis for electoral support for political parties in the Czech and Slovak Republics in the post-1993 period. The database consists of results from Parliamentary elections (in the Czech context, elections to the Chamber of Deputies) and of data...

...Håvard Bækken For a considerable part of the political opposition in Russia, elections have been something to be watched from the sidelines. While opposition candidates are formally blocked for legal-administrative reasons, they have repeatedly claimed that registration refusals are politically...

...Donnacha Ó Beacháin Presidential and parliamentary elections in Abkhazia are pluralistic and competitive. They have led to the transfer of power from government to opposition forces. This in itself is a remarkable fact in the post-Soviet context, where the outcome of elections very often...

... on political processes inside these entities. To substantiate the argument three elections in the de-facto state of Nagorno-Karabakh are scrutinized. The analysis reveals that contrary to prevalent classifications the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is not frozen, but that indeed the persistent violent conflict...

.... In 2009 amendments to the electoral law altered this key provision. This change clearly made a difference, but it could not resolve fundamental problems of Latvia’s political process in general and its political parties in particular. Latvia Elections Electoral system Representation Political...

... of introducing democracy in Russia’s special circumstances. © 2010 The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2010 The Regents of the University of California Democracy Democratization Privatization Constitution Russia Elections Legislature...

...Jessica Allina-Pisano Drawing on evidence from Ukraine and other post-Soviet states, this article analyses the use of a tool of political coercion known in the post-communist world as adminresurs , or administrative resource. Administrative resource is characterized by the pre-election capture...

... the rules of democratic game into their collective advantage, in the 2000s acted with a sense of impunity and lack of any consideration for political accountability that in democracies arrives at the end of any election cycle. Plagued by corruption scandals, they lost their popular base: the economically...

... round of the 2004 Romanian presidential elections, Traian B asescu, the candidate of the centereright 0967-067X/$ - see frontmatter 2008Published byElsevier Ltd on behalf of TheRegents of theUniversity ofCalifornia. doi:10.1016/j.postcomstud.2008.09.004Grigore Pop-Eleches Department of Politics...

... Ltd. All rights reserved. 2008 The Regents of the University of California Czech Social Democratic Party the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia Elections Left in the Czech politics Following the regime changes in 1989 and 1990, a certain swing of the pendu- lum could be observed...

... of the Parliament of the Czech Republic by means of an analysis of party election manifestoes. The extent of Europeanization in these documents is analyzed using a bi-dimensional conceptualization. The first we call the quantitative dimension , assesses the space taken by the topic of European integration in each...