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

2006 ◽  
Vol 85 (5) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
Robert Legvold ◽  
Joshua A. Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Economic Voting ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
The Czech Republic

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

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 263-265
Author(s):  
Dmitri Mitin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Economic Voting ◽  
National Elections ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Election Results ◽  
Institutional Ambiguity

Regional Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, 1990–1999, Joshua A. Tucker, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. xxii, 417.Recognizing and predicting the patterns of voting behaviour is a formidable task even in the case of mature and stable democracies. Needless to say, the identification of such trends in the wake of a fundamental political and economic restructuring, when the basic rules of the game are still in flux, can be frustratingly elusive. In this ambitious and methodologically sophisticated study, Joshua Tucker takes on the challenge and suggests a fresh approach for cutting through the fog of post-communist institutional ambiguity. The book reports on several prominent regularities in the voting outcomes that span five countries, several distinct institutional designs, twenty national elections and ten years of transition. In contrast to the studies that rely on micro-level survey data or small-n cross-country comparisons, Tucker aggregates and analyzes the election results at the intermediate, regional level. Cross-regional comparison provides enough resolution for detecting systematic voting patterns shaped by local economic conditions. Explaining the observed connection between regional economy and regional vote is the central theme of Tucker's study.

scholarly journals The Geography of Demilitarisation: Do Regional Economic Disparities Affect the Spatial Distribution of Military Base Closures?

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 252-266
Author(s):  
Jan ŽEnka ◽  
Bohuslav Pernica ◽  
Jan KofroŇ
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Military Bases ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Economic Disparities ◽  
Military Base ◽  
Military Base Closures ◽  
Base Closures ◽  
Regional Economic Disparities

Abstract Very few researchers have focused on the question of: if and to what extent, regional economic disparities affect military base closures. In this paper, we aim to explain regional patterns of military base closures in the Czech Republic, a country that has experienced a sharp decline in military employment and expenditures since the beginning of 1990s. Three groups of predictors of closure were considered: local (size, age, location and hierarchical position of the military base); regional (wages, unemployment, city size, the initial level of militarisation of the district); and national-level predictors (geostrategic priorities and restructuring of the Czech Armed Forces). Our research is informed by the theory of public choice and its application to the decision-making processes concerning military base closures and realignments. We employed a combination of regression models to determine which group of the above-mentioned factors affected the spatial distribution of military bases in the period 1994–2005. While geostrategic factors (such as distance from the border with West Germany) and restructuring of the army (type of a military base) were the most important, regional economic disparities showed no significant correlation with the intensity of military base closures/downsizing. We did not demonstrate that military bases in economically lagging regions had been systematically protected in the Czech Republic.

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