Ukraine's Emerging Electoral Geography: A Regional Analysis of the 1998 Parliamentary Elections

1999 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter R. Craumer ◽  
James I. Clem
Keyword(s):  
Regional Analysis ◽  
Electoral Geography ◽  
Parliamentary Elections

scholarly journals INTRAREGIONAL VARIABILITY AND PLACE-SPECIFIC ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR IN UKRAINE

2018 ◽  
pp. 4-17
Author(s):  
Mykola DOBYSH
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Time Scale ◽  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Electoral Behavior ◽  
Electoral Geography ◽  
Parliamentary Elections ◽  
Research Instrument ◽  
Electoral Preferences

The paper criticizes electoral geography studies of Ukraine, where the territory of the country is artificially divided into a number of regions following administrative divisions. The study reveals intraregional variability in the territorial patterns of voting behavior in Ukraine in 2002-2014. Zakarpattya, Chernivtsi, Sumy, Chernigiv, and Zhytomyr oblasts have the highest intraregional variance of electoral preferences for conventional “national-democratic” and “Communists and pro-Russian” political parties. All oblasts of Ukraine have internal variations of voting behavior. It was studied based on electoral results data for rayons and cities with special administrative status (n=675). Scatterplot with a time scale, filters for oblasts and rayons/cities, and the opportunity to draw electoral preferences trajectories from 2002 to 2014 parliamentary elections was used as a research instrument. The study also reveals region-specific voting patterns of cities and territorial outliers, which are bounded by administrative borders places with unique voting behavior. The paper accentuates place-specific and region-as-context understanding of electoral behavior as an essential conceptual framework for the further electoral geography studies of Ukraine.

scholarly journals Themes, approaches, and methods in the geographical analysis of Czech and Slovak parliamentary elections: a systematic review

2021 ◽  
pp. 248-261
Author(s):  
Dominik Kevický
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Electoral Geography ◽  
Geographical Analysis ◽  
Parliamentary Elections ◽  
Election Results

This article reviews the field of electoral geography in Czechia and Slovakia. It systematically analyses selected publications to identify the most and least frequently researched topics, theories, and methods. Most of the analyzed studies strived to determine the factors underlying the uneven geographical distribution of election results. Issues of turnout and geographical representation were the least common. The cleavage theory was the most frequently applied theoretical approach, although most studies did not apply any theory. Only one study used the qualitative methodology, whereas the rest relied on quantitative methods. Most often, analyses were performed at the scale of districts and municipalities. The article identifies possible directions for future research in the electoral geography of Czechia and Slovakia.

scholarly journals Albanian Question Today

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-83
Author(s):  
Pavel Kandel ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Electoral Geography ◽  
Parliamentary Elections ◽  
The Future ◽  
Run Up ◽  
Question Today

The paper deals with three interrelated topics: the recent parliamentary elections in Albania, the current situation in neighboring Kosovo, and the renewed dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade. It contains the analysis of the run-up to the election and its result along with the longstanding assumptions regarding the specificities of Albania’s electoral geography. It also assesses the pan-Albanian rhetoric of the leading politicians in Tirana and Pristina which is actively exploited for political strengthening and used as a right means for blackmailing Brussels. Nonetheless, whoever resorts to it looks upon other as rivals and is not ready to give up leadership in the implementation of the national ideal. The author also speculates about the prospects for the future negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo, believing that a serious result cannot be expected until the presidential elections 2022 in Serbia.

Ein Ende mit Schrecken – Frankreich nach den Wahlen

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (188) ◽  
pp. 495-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Syrovatka
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Political Support ◽  
The Political ◽  
Parliamentary Elections ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Economic Transformations ◽  
Crisis Of Representation ◽  
Election Results ◽  
Deep Crisis

The presidential and parliamentary elections were a political earthquake for the French political system. While the two big parties experienced massive losses of political support, the rise of new political formations took place. Emmanuel Macron is not only the youngest president of the V. Republic so far, he is also the first president not to be supported by either one of the two biggest parties. This article argues that the election results are an expression of a deep crisis of representation in France that is rooted in the economic transformations of the 1970s. The article analyses the political situation after the elections and tries to give an outlook on further political developments in France.

Record Linkage Theory and Practice: A Matter of Confidence

1997 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 150-155
Author(s):  
Peter Adman
Keyword(s):  
Record Linkage ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Recent Issue ◽  
Parliamentary Elections ◽  
Confidence Levels ◽  
Multiple Pass ◽  
Linkage Rate ◽  
Paper Record ◽  
The City

In a recent issue of this journal (Vol.8 no.2) the paper ‘Record linkage theory and practice: an experiment in the application of multiple pass linkage algorithms’ by Charles Harvey, Edmund Green and Penelope J. Corfield described the advances the authors have made on their previously published work. By using a multiple pass methodology they increased the linkage rate between two successive polls (1784 and 1788) from one-fifth to nearly three-fifths of the voters in the parliamentary elections for the City of Westminster. This critique examines the validity of their claims with regard to the confidence levels attained.

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