Journal article
Post-socialist democratization: a comparative political economy model of the vote for Hungary and Nicaragua
Electoral studies, Vol.22(3), pp.469-484
2003
DOI: 10.1016/S0261-3794(02)00009-4
Abstract
For advanced democracies, models of electoral behavior are rather well developed. However, such models may explain only a part of electoral behavior in new democracies. In particular, they seem poorly suited to the emerging, post-socialist democracies, where the vote choice involves fundamental national economic and political variables. While the new democracies of Hungary and Nicaragua are different in certain obvious ways, they share the common experience of profound economic and political system shifts. In this exploratory research, we argue that, in such cases, voters decide largely on the basis of key political and economic system considerations. To support our claim, we formulate a comparative Political Economy model and estimate it by using logistic regression on survey data from the 1990 Nicaraguan election and the 1994 Hungarian election.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Post-socialist democratization: a comparative political economy model of the vote for Hungary and Nicaragua
- Creators
- L Anderson - Department of Political Science, University of Florida, PO Box 117325, Gainesville, FL 32611, USAM.S Lewis-Beck - Department of Political Science, University of Iowa, 341 Schaeffer Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242, USAM Stegmaier - Department of International Studies, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA 24450, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Electoral studies, Vol.22(3), pp.469-484
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0261-3794(02)00009-4
- ISSN
- 0261-3794
- eISSN
- 1873-6890
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2003
- Academic Unit
- Political Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984025663002771
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