Democratic Elections in Poland, 1991-2007

Millard, Frances

doi:10.4324/9780203872727

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“…On the explanatory variable side, the Polish regulatory environment showed remarkable instability (Benoit & Hayden ; Millard ). It is useful to consider the rules preceding the 1991 elections when evaluating subsequent institutional changes.…”

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Electoral reforms, entry barriers and the structure of political markets: A comparative analysis

Sebők

Horvath

Balázs

2018

European J Political Res

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This article investigates the impact of electoral reforms on entry barriers in political markets. The discussion starts by delineating the theoretical boundaries of various political markets, such as those for participation, parties and government. By taking a cue from industrial organisation theory, the article offers an analysis of entry barriers, both hard and soft, along with their operationalisation for empirical research. Based on this theoretical framework, a single hypothesis is investigated. It posits that the modification of the entry barriers in the market for parties leads to changes in the concentration of the popular vote for party lists. An observable implication of this relationship would be if an electoral reform that raises entry barriers led to subsequent increases in the Herfindahl index (a measure of market concentration), and vice versa. This proposition is empirically tested by a comparative analysis of a new database covering Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The analysis offers support for the following proposition: in most cases the changes in the entry barriers led to a corresponding change of concentration in the market for parties.

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Electoral reforms, entry barriers and the structure of political markets: A comparative analysis

Sebők

Horvath

Balázs

2018

European J Political Res

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“…As far as electoral behavior is concerned, it is by far the most volatile new democracies in the world (cf. Markowski, 2006;Jasiewicz, 2008;Millard, 2010). If we find that voting is a habit in Poland -despite its high electoral volatility -then it is plausible to assume that in other new democracies we should observe similar processes.…”

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Voting as a habit in new democracies – Evidence from Poland

Cześnik

Żerkowska-Balas

Kotnarowski

2013

Communist and Post-Communist Studies

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a b s t r a c tAmong the wide range of theories explaining why some people vote and others do not, one is recently gaining particular popularity. This is the theory of voting as a habit (e.g. Plutzer, 2002;Franklin, 2004;Hooghe, 2004). The empirical evidence supporting this theory covers only Western democracies, so the following question might be asked: is this pattern universal? In the case of old democracies, voting is a habit acquired gradually in a process which starts at the moment of the very first election one can cast the ballot. In new democracies the situation is different, as we can pinpoint the starting moment (first democratic election), which is the same for different voters and thus different age cohorts. In this paper we investigate voting as a habit in new democracies, using data from the Polish National Election Study. We find that voting in Poland has some habitual aspect; repeated voting brings about a (sort of) habit, which has an intrinsic, irreducible effect on voter turnout. We also find that habit of voting is formed likewise in all age cohorts.

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“…Mindeközben politikai stabilitásról nem szólhatunk, a lengyel politikai életet nagyfokú polarizáció és fragmentáció jellemezte a kilencvenes években (Millard 2010). Ennek ellenére a gazdaságpolitikai kontinuitás alapvetően fennmaradt és a költségvetési folyamatot a középtávú, stratégiai és konzervatív tervezés jellemezte, olyan átfogó programokkal, mint az úgynevezett "Strategy for Poland" vagy az 1996-ban elfogadott "Package 2000", mely a fenntartható növekedés és alacsony infláció érdekében kisebb államot, alacsonyabb állami kiadási és bevételi szintet célzott meg.…”

Section: A Stabilizálás Utáni Felívelés: 1993-2000unclassified

Politikai költségvetési ciklusok: fiskális ciklushatások az állami kiadásokban Lengyelországban

Halász

2014

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Democratic Elections in Poland, 1991-2007

Cited by 25 publications

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Electoral reforms, entry barriers and the structure of political markets: A comparative analysis

Electoral reforms, entry barriers and the structure of political markets: A comparative analysis

Voting as a habit in new democracies – Evidence from Poland

Politikai költségvetési ciklusok: fiskális ciklushatások az állami kiadásokban Lengyelországban

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