Regional Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, 1990-1999

ISBN-13: 9780521856607 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 444 str.

Joshua L. Tucker

Opis

This book examines the effect of economic conditions on election results in five post-communist countries--Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic--in the first decade of post-communist elections. It is the first book length study of economic voting outside of established democracies, as well as one of the few comparative studies of voting in post-communist countries generally. The study relies on an original database composed of regional level economic, demographic, and electoral data, and the analysis features a broadly based comparative assessment of the findings across all twenty elections as well as more focused case study analysis.

Recenzje

"In this outstanding new study, Joshua Tucker evaluates the economic voting literature in light of the postcommunist evidence and in doing so turns much of it on its head....Regional Economic Voting is a shining example of how to design a monograph in a way that derives maximum theoretical leverage from a body of evidence while cautiously keeping one’s conclusions as close as possible to this evidence. This book is a remarkable achievement and will be widely read."
Neil Abrams, University of California, Berkeley, Comparative Political Studies

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Economic conditions and election results; 3. Comparative cross-regional analysis; 4. Paired case studies; 5. The incumbency hypothesis; 6. The new regime hypothesis; 7. The old regime hypothesis; 8. Comparative analysis; 9. Economic voting and post-communist politics.