How important are new constitutions for democratic consolidation? Lessons from the post-communist states

Stanger, Allison

doi:10.1080/1351034042000238149

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“… 4. Whereas many works of legacy analysis consider the durability of singular institutions such as welfare systems, constitutions, and party systems (Geddes 1995; Inglot 2003; Stanger 2004), others consider the influence of pre-rupture institutions on attitudinal and behavioral outcomes (La Porte and Lussier 2011). In a 2013 working paper titled “What is a Historical Legacy?,” Jason Wittenberg helpfully suggests that legacy arguments are most compelling when independent and dependent variables are not phenomenologically the same. …”

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Regionalism in New Democracies: The Authoritarian Origins of Voter–Party Linkages

Berman

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2019

Political Research Quarterly

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We investigate the path-dependent effects of subnational variation in authoritarian state-building policies on voter–party linkages after regime change. We argue that long-term patterns of regional favoritism and marginalization produce patterned regional heterogeneity in the attitudes and preferences linking voters with parties. Postcolonial state-building policies create “winners” and “losers” from particular interventions, in turn shaping local citizens’ preferences over these policy areas and forming axes of contestation ready to be activated by democratic politics. We argue that attitudes associated with regionally consistent state-building policies should function uniformly as determinants of vote choice across regions, while attitudes associated with regionally divergent state-building policies should experience patterned regional variation in their effect on vote choice. We develop these arguments empirically with historical analysis of Tunisian state-building and an original exit survey of voters in five diverse regions conducted on the day of Tunisia’s first democratic legislative elections in 2014. Our findings contribute to a growing literature on the importance of analyzing political transformation at the subnational level.

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