PARTIES & ELECTIONS
Recent election results in: Bulgaria Czechslovakia Czech Republic Slovakia Estonia Hungary Latvia Lithuania Poland Romania Slovenia
A handbook of elections and electoral systems:Elections in Central and Eastern Europe Since 1990
For elections in Russia, see www.RussiaVotes.org
For recent election results in 25 established democracies included in
Mackie and Rose, The International Almanac of Electoral History,
1991, see
A Decade of Election Results: Updating
the International Alamanac.
See also, below
Other CSPP Analytic Reports on Elections
Free elections are an integral feature of democracy. Since 1990 countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and many successor states of the former Soviet Union including Russia, have held two or more competitive elections. Equally striking, in many countries election results or votes in parliament have led to a peaceful change in government. Yet the success of ex-Communist parties and politicians in many countries forces one to ask: What are people voting for?
The ballot is a blunt instrument: people may be voting against the government of the day rather than for the programme of its critics. To understand what is in the minds of voters, it is necessary to conduct public opinion surveys. Barometer questionnaires not only ask about voting intentions but also whether people are committed to a particular party or distrust parties and politicians. The results caution against inferring ideological significance from many electoral outcomes. Results of these surveys, along with other survey studies of voting behaviour in post-Communist countries are reported in the SPP papers listed below, and in the book How Russia Votes. For further details, click on the reference number of a paper or contact CSPP direct.
SPP 313 POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN A NEW DEMOCRACY: INSTITUTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS FROM ZAMBIA. Michael Bratton, Michigan State University. £4 .
SPP 307 RELIGION AND POLITICAL ACTION IN POSTCOMMUNIST EUROPE. Stephen White, Bill Miller, Ase Grodeland and Sarah Oates, University of Glasgow. £4 .
SPP 300 ELECTIONS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE SINCE 1990. R Rose, N Munro and T T Mackie. £10 .
SPP 290 EVALUATING ELECTION TURNOUT. Richard Rose, CSPP. £3 .
SPP 289 IDEOLOGY, UNCERTAINTY AND THE RISE OF ANTI-SYSTEM PARTIES IN POSTCOMMUN$ RUSSIA. Stephen E Hanson, University of Washington. £3 .
SPP 286 NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE PARTISANSHIP IN POST-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES. Richard Rose, CSPP and William Mishler, University of Arizona. £3 .
SPP 279 POLITICAL PARTIES AND DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION IN EAST CENTRAL EUROPE. Gabor Toka, Central European University, Budapest. £6 .
SPP 276 KTO KOGO: RUSSIA'S FORCED-CHOICE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Richard Rose and Evgeny Tikhomirov, CSPP. £4 .
SPP 272 NEW RUSSIA BAROMETER VI: AFTER THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Richard Rose, CSPP. £12 .
SPP 271 UNDERSTANDING MULTI-PARTY CHOICE; THE 1995 DUMA ELECTION. Richard Rose, Evgeny Tikhomirov, CSPP and William Mishler, U. of South Carolina. £4 .
SPP 265 THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND THE ELECTORAL PROCESS. Richard Sakwa, U. of Kent. £4 .
SPP 261 BORIS YELTSIN'S CHANGING POPULAR SUPPORT. Richard Rose, CSPP and Stephen White, University of Glasgow. £4 .
SPP 260 NEW RUSSIA BAROMETER V: BETWEEN TWO ELECTIONS. Richard Rose, CSPP and VCIOM (All-Russian Centre for Public Opinion), Moscow. £12 .
SPP 259 WHAT IS DIFFERENT ABOUT POST-COMMUNIST PARTY SYSTEMS? Peter Mair, Leiden University, The Netherlands. £4 .
SPP 257 POLITICAL COMPETITION AND IDEOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS IN CENTRAL EASTERN EUROPE. Radoslaw Markowski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. £4 .
SPP 253 EX-COMMUNISTS IN POST-COMMUNIST SOCIETIES. Richard Rose, CSPP. £3 .
SPP 246 MOBILIZING DEMOBILIZED VOTERS. Richard Rose, CSPP. £3 .
SPP 243 THE REFERENDUM IN COMMUNIST AND POSTCOMMUNIST EUROPE. Ronald J Hill, Trinity College, Dublin and Stephen White, University of Glasgow. £3 .
SPP 241 PARTY SYSTEMS IN EAST CENTRAL EUROPE CONSOLIDATION OR FLUIDITY? Herbert Kitschelt, Duke University & Humboldt Universität, Berlin. £8 .
SPP 237 ALIENATION, APATHY OR AMBIVALENCE? DON'T KNOWS AND DEMOCRACY IN RUSSIA. Ellen Carnaghan, Political Science, St Louis University. £3 .
SPP 232 REPRESENTATION AND EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP IN POST-COMMUNIST POLITICAL SYSTEMS. Richard Rose, CSPP & William Mishler, U. of South Carolina. £4 .
SPP 223 POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN POSTCOMMUNIST RUSSIA: VOTING, ACTIVISM AND THE POTENTIAL FOR MASS PROTEST. Ian McAllister, U. of New South Wales and Stephen White, Glasgow University. £3 .
SPP 221 COMMUNISTS AFTER COMMUNISM. Stephen White, Glasgow University and Ian McAllister, U. of New South Wales. £3 .
SPP 217 LEGISLATURES AND NEW DEMOCRACIES: Public Support for Parliaments and Regimes in Eastern Europe. William T.E. Mishler, University of South Carolina and Richard Rose, CSPP. £3 .