... 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...

...Daniel Oross; Sergiu Gherghina Political parties use participatory practices to connect with their members and with the broader electorate. While substantial research indicates how people get involved, very little is known about why political parties use participatory practices. The present article...

... Voting nationalization Political parties Party systems Russian regions Parliamentary elections Party systems Russian regions Parliamentary elections of nat l units of the state rial and functional ional level tend to n of vote swings at atterns get similar (Claggett et al., 1984...

...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...

... and weakened national democratic parties — in the 2012 parliamentary elections. © 2014 The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California Ukraine Radical right Political parties Social movements...

... studies. © 2013 The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2013 The Regents of the University of California Hungary Political parties Social structure Social cleavages Keywords: Hungary Political parties Social structure Social...

...John Ishiyama; Anna Batta How do the features of a rebel group and the external political environment interact to affect the internal dynamics within a rebel group after it transforms into a political party? In this paper we combine literature on organizational change in parties in new democracies...

.... 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...

...Vlastimil Havlík This article represents a contribution to the debate over the attitudes of political parties to the European integration-one of the hot topics in contemporary political science. It explores the dynamics of attitudes of political parties in the Czech Republic to the EU and analyzes...

... groups. The paper provides evidence for qualifying the scholarly support in favour of proportional representation. It also draws attention to potential trade-offs between communal representation and ethnic inclusiveness of main political parties that the use of special mechanisms for minority...

... advantage of a shifting electoral environment. * Corresponding author. © 2008 The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2008 The Regents of the University of California Communist successor parties Political parties Slovakia Public...

... disadvantaged groups to nationalistic populists, the urbane libertarians to liberal democrats. © 2008 The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2008 The Regents of the University of California Poland Political parties Elections Communism...

... discipline and coalition cooperation are in short supply, partisan controls are ineffective as instruments of legislative control. Poland Central Europe Executive—legislative relations Government legislative control Political parties Legislative rules © 2008 The Regents of the University...

...-lj.si (I. Lukšiŭ). © 2003 The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2003 The Regents of the University of California Corporatism Pluralism National state building in Slovenia Political parties Communist and Post-Communist...

... of California Mixed system Single-member districts Personal vote Political parties Russia Communist and Post-Communist Studies 35 (2002) 23 38 Party support or personal resources? Factors of success in the plurality portion of the 1999 national legislative elections in Russia Grigorii V. Golosov...

... with a discrediting past. This transformation is itself a function of elite skills developed under communism. 2002 The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Political parties; Communist successors; Electoral cleavages; Policy programs; Slovakia...

.... This difference indicates, among other things, that in the Czech Republic the declared right-wing political orientations so far acted as barrier to voting for left-wing political parties, for which people would likely vote if they voted according to their value-based left-wing orientations. © 1998 The Regents...

... of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 1997 The Regents of the University of California political parties ideological dimension left and right political competition elites and masses Pergamon Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol. 30, No. 3. pp...