Regional Economic Voting or Information Systems Technology

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

Author: Joshua L Tucker

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.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction	1
2	Economic conditions and election results	27
3	Comparative cross-regional analysis	78
4	Paired case studies	126
5	The incumbency hypothesis	152
App. 5.1	Coding of primary and other coalition partners	178
6	The new regime hypothesis	184
App. 6.1	Borderline new regime parties	210
7	The old regime hypothesis	215
App. 7.1	Supplementary tables	242
8	Comparative analysis	244
App. 8.1	Supplementary table	274
9	Economic voting and postcommunist politics	276
App. I	National election results	309
App. II	Regression results and documentation	319
App. III	Estimated distributions of first differences	356
App. IV	Percentage of positive simulations by party	375

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