Introduction: An Analytical Framework for Studying Territoriality of the Vote in Eastern Europe

Schakel, Arjan H.; Dandoy, Régis

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“…The literature offers two alternative theoretical approaches to regional elections (Jeffery and Hough 2009;Jeffery and Wincott 2010;Schakel and Dandoy 2013a;Schakel and Dandoy 2017;Swenden and Maddens 2009a). The first looks at the institutional setting and, in particular, at the functional responsibilities assigned to regional government.…”

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Towards a scholarship on regional elections

Schakel

Romanova

2018

Regional & Federal Studies

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This introduction article inaugurates the first annual special issue on regional elections which sets out to nurture a community of regional election scholars who seek to understand the factors driving regional voters, regional election outcomes, and regional electoral dynamics across the globe. This is a much-needed research effort given that the territorial scope and importance of regional elections have increased considerably over the past four decades yet most scholarship remains focused on national elections. Collectively the articles and reports presented in this first special issue enable us to distil three contributions to the scholarship on regional elections: a refinement on the scope conditions of the second-order election model; the introduction of the concept of barometer elections; and the insight that each regional (and national) election is regionalized or nationalized to a certain extent, either in outcome and/or in relation to the processes that sustain the outcome.

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Section: Addressing Methodological Nationalism In Electoral Researchmentioning

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Towards a scholarship on regional elections

Schakel

Romanova

2018

Regional & Federal Studies

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The crisis of local leadership: A passing trend or a systematic problem?

Klačar

2023

Srpska politička misao

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In this paper, the author will examine the influence of the electoral system at the local level and the party system with a hegemonic or (pre)dominant party on the development of local political leadership. The main point is that Serbia is going through a crisis in the development of local leadership (and local democracy) as a consequence of centralization of political decisions and merging local elections with national ones, as well as a PR electoral system with one electoral unit. This kind of electoral system, according to its inherent characteristics, produces a lack of communication between the elected representatives and the electorate, thereby losing an important step necessary in building leadership. The author analyses how the combination of high centralization in decision-making process and weak internal democracy within political parties and the electoral system in the long term encourages the negative selection of political elites at the local level. A logic incentive for local leaders and local democratic processes is to increase their political rating by communicating with voters. In practice, the reverse process takes place at the local level: politicians understand that their rating depends less on electorate and more on intra-party practices, and in Serbia, they are overwhelmingly of an undemocratic nature. The author will analyse the party leadership of the relevant political parties/organizations in Serbia, internal party elections and the mobility of local leaders in the party hierarchy. Through secondary sources and document analysis, the derogation of local leadership and democracy and their exchange (trade off) for the stability of political processes at the national level are analysed. Also, 15 case studies of successful local leaders after 2004 and the outcomes of their political careers are discussed.

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Introduction: An Analytical Framework for Studying Territoriality of the Vote in Eastern Europe

Abstract: Elections are often considered to be one of the core institutions of democracy (Bunce and Wolchik 2009), and therefore it is not surprising that scholars have taken up an interest in electoral dynamics in postcommunist countries (

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Towards a scholarship on regional elections

The crisis of local leadership: A passing trend or a systematic problem?

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