The Polish general election of 1991

Webb, Walter Loring

doi:10.1016/0261-3794(92)90038-8

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“…Continuing splits on the right after 1993 further ensured the defeat of Walęsa's bid to win a second term at the 1995 presidential election and the election of Aleksander Kwaśniewski (SLD) as President, concentrating all executive power in the hands of the SLD. Thus, the SLD and its allies controlled the Sejm, government and presidency [Webb 1992, Wesolowski 1996.…”

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A Tale of Four Elections: Central Europe September 1997- September 1998

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2000

Czech Sociological Review

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This article analyses and compares the four elections held between September 1997 and September 1998 in the four 'Visegrad' countries (Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia), all of which led to a change of government. It concentrates on the effect of these elections on the development of party systems, seeking to identify trends across the region. It notes that the key issue was the restructuring of the centre-right. It concludes that party systems remain more unstable than might have been thought and that the process of restructuring is far from over.

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Section: Polandmentioning

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A Tale of Four Elections: Central Europe September 1997- September 1998

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2000

Czech Sociological Review

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“…All told 29 parties entered the Sejm with 11 parties gaining only one seat each. Five parties were required to forin a majority coalition, and three cabinets were in office between the 1991 election and the dissolution of parliament 19 months later (Webb 1992;Jasiewicz 1996).…”

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The Effect of Legal Thresholds on the Revival of Former Communist Parties in East-Central Europe

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Loewenberg

1999

The Journal of Politics

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Since 1989 six Central and East European countries have held competitive elections under 17 different electoral systems. After some experimentation, the new electoral systems, adopted on the initiative of noncommunist parties, provided for proportional representation, with legal thresholds designed to protect the new parties from smaller, more recent, and more extreme formations. These legal thresholds favored noncommunist parties initially but subsequently appeared to facilitate a return of postcommunist parties to power. A multivariate model of the effect of electoral system thresholds in 13 elections confirms that they contributed to disproportionality but fails to confirm that they consistently favored either former communist or noncommunist parties. Further analysis reveals that legal thresholds have exaggerated the effect of volatility in the electorates on the representation of parties in parliament, causing systems of proportional representation to behave more like single-member plurality systems.

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“…, Fowler (1998;, Korkut (2007), Webb (1992), Tworzecki (1994), Chan (1998), Millard (2003a;2003b;, Wightman (1990;1993) …”

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