... 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. © 2011 The Regents of the University of California. Published...

...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...

... Central Europe Executive—legislative relations Government legislative control Political parties Legislative rules Radoslaw Zubek order ( Agh, 1994, 1995; Olson and Norton, 1996). Such initial overparliamentarisa- tion of Central European polities was fuelled, in part, by a relative incompetence...

...-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...

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.... 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...