Presidents between national unity and ethnic divisions: public trust across the Baltic states

Duvold, Kjetil; Sedelius, Thomas

doi:10.1080/01629778.2022.2064523

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“…Presidential powers and regime-level differences All presidents carry certain expectations. Usually, presidents are expected to act as guardians of 'national unity' and to represent the country abroad (Tavits, 2009;Duvold and Sedelius, 2022). The actual role of the president does, however, vary between countries and regime types.…”

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Popularity and powers: comparing public opinion on presidents in semi-presidential and presidential regimes

Kujanen

2023

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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The role of the president varies between political systems, and so does public opinion on presidents. One of the most evident factors distinguishing presidents in different systems is the constitutional strength of the presidency, which should impact how presidents are perceived by the people. Public opinion on presidents has mainly been studied in the context of classical presidential regimes such as the USA and Latin American countries, and we lack systematic empirical research on presidential popularity in other regime types and in the context of the presidents’ constitutional powers. This article addresses this research gap by analysing whether the level of presidential powers explain variation in presidential popularity across different constitutional settings. Drawing on public opinion surveys and relevant contextual data from 15 countries, the results show that a higher level of presidential popularity is associated with weaker presidency and that the impact of the economy and electoral cycle is conditioned by the level of presidential powers.

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Popularity and powers: comparing public opinion on presidents in semi-presidential and presidential regimes

Kujanen

2023

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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Trust in president – a different case? Individual-level patterns of trust in political executives in Central and Eastern Europe

Kujanen

2024

East European Politics

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In the Shadow of War: Public Opinion in the Baltic States, 2014 and 2021

Ekman

2024

Journal of Eurasian Studies

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Drawing on research on political culture and research on geopolitical orientations, this article analyses public opinion in the three Baltic states (2014 and 2021), focusing on political support, inter-ethnic relations and geopolitical attitudes. In the first section, the empirical analysis demonstrates widespread public support for the national communities in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Most respondents feel a sense of attachment to or pride in their respective homeland, and a relative majority of all respondents feel that their contemporary political systems are preferable to other systems in the past. At the same time, the analysis alert us to distinct ethnic differences: the Russian-speakers in the three countries tend to be decidedly more nostalgic about the Soviet past and less satisfied with the present regimes. Confirming and updating findings familiar from previous studies, this article also notes that the population groups in the three Baltic states were growing more or less accustomed to the domestic situation, up until the escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2022. In the second part of the article, we turn to geopolitical belonging and security perceptions in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

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Presidents between national unity and ethnic divisions: public trust across the Baltic states

Cited by 3 publications

References 66 publications

Popularity and powers: comparing public opinion on presidents in semi-presidential and presidential regimes

Popularity and powers: comparing public opinion on presidents in semi-presidential and presidential regimes

Trust in president – a different case? Individual-level patterns of trust in political executives in Central and Eastern Europe

In the Shadow of War: Public Opinion in the Baltic States, 2014 and 2021

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