Voting in a Floating Party System: The 1999 Duma Election

Rose, Richard; Munro, Neil; White, Stephen

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“…One of the freedoms now granted to post-communist citizens, at least on paper, is that of not participating in the electoral process (Rose et al, 2001). Thus a fall in turnout from the figures close to 100% that were regularly seen before 1989 is not necessarily indicative of a collapse of support for democracy.…”

Section: 'Political Participation': Turnout Membership and Other Actmentioning

confidence: 96%

Patterns of Participation in Post-Soviet Politics

Hutcheson

Korosteleva

2006

Comp Eur Polit

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The article examines trends in participation and engagement in the post-Soviet sphere, treating participation as one element of a wider examination of the 'quality' of democracy. Through analysis of trends in political interest, trust and traditional and non-traditional forms of participation since 1989, and taking into account elements of social and political capital, it concludes that the citizens in postcommunist European states display fewer signs of political engagement than their Western counterparts, and that such tendencies are particularly notable in the post-Soviet 'outsider' states of Russia, Ukraine and, to a lesser extent, Belarus. Examination of the causes of disengagement suggests that it is partly accounted for by low levels of political efficacy and lack of interest in civic affairs.

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Section: 'Political Participation': Turnout Membership and Other Actmentioning

confidence: 96%

Patterns of Participation in Post-Soviet Politics

Hutcheson

Korosteleva

2006

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“…In addition, the majority of parties lacked recognisable ideological platforms. Evidence of voting patterns showed little correlation between voters' party choices and socioeconomic indicators suggesting that parties were not mobilising support along social cleavage lines (Rose et al 2001). Unfortunately, this 'floating party system' undermined effective electoral accountability to Russian voters and the perpetuation of 'patronage-led political coalitions' (Rose et al 2001, p. 439).…”

Section: Governors and Duma Deputies In Russiamentioning

confidence: 97%

“…No party nominated candidates in all 225 single-member district elections, and only two parties, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Rossiiskoi Federatsii) and Yabloko, nominated candidates in at least half of the districts. In the single-member district election, 42% of voters voted for independent candidates, with the result that over 50% of elected deputies were without partisan ties (Rose et al 2001). In addition, the majority of parties lacked recognisable ideological platforms.…”

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“…In their analysis of the 1999 Duma election, Rose et al (2001) argue that prior to the 1999 Duma elections, Russia lacked strong political parties for a number of reasons. No party nominated candidates in all 225 single-member district elections, and only two parties, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Rossiiskoi Federatsii) and Yabloko, nominated candidates in at least half of the districts.…”

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The Effect of Governor Support on Legislative Behaviour in the RussianDuma

Thames¹

2009

Europe-Asia Studies

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Until the 2007 Duma election, the Russian polity displayed several characteristics that should have allowed regional leaders to have an impact on deputies: a federalist system, an electoral system that encouraged regional representation, weak political parties, and regional leaders with electoral resources. Recent research on Russian mixed-member Duma elections argues that governors influenced the election of single-member district deputies. This raises the spectre that governors could have influenced the behaviour of these deputies. Using data from the third post-communist Duma, I demonstrate that single-member district deputies backed by regional leaders in the 1999 Duma election behaved differently from others in two critical areas: parliamentary party choice and support for the presidential legislative agenda. Governor support did not, however, affect committee choice.

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“…United Russia and the URF thus constituted the de facto legislative coalition supporting the Kremlin and its program in the early years of Putin's administration (Rose, Munro, and White 2001;Sakwa 2005). This connection to the regime likely yielded them the resources necessary to build organization at the local level, to recruit a superior slate of local candidates, and certainly to better familiarize voters with their candidates.…”

Section: The Russian Party System In 2003mentioning

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Mixed-Member Electoral Systems in Constitutional Context

Batto¹,

Huang²,

Tan³

et al. 2016

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Reformers have promoted mixed-member electoral systems as the "best of both worlds." In this volume, internationally recognized political scientists evaluate the ways in which the introduction of a mixed-member electoral system affects the coniguration of political parties. The contributors examine several political phenomena, including cabinet post allocation, nominations, preelectoral coalitions, split-ticket voting, and the size of party systems and faction systems. Signiicantly, they also consider various ways in which the constitutional system-especially whether the head of government is elected directly or indirectly-can modify the incentives created by the electoral system. Part I of the book provides an in-depth comparison of Taiwan and Japan, both of which moved from single nontransferable vote systems to mixed-member majoritarian systems. These cases demonstrate that the higher the payoffs of attaining the executive ofice and the greater degree of cross-district coordination required to win it, the stronger the incentives for elites to form and stay in the major parties. In such a context, a country will move rapidly toward a two-party system. In Part II, the contributors apply this theoretical logic to other countries with mixed-member systems and ind that executive competition has the same effect on legislative electoral rules in countries as disparate as Thailand, the Philippines, New Zealand, Bolivia, and Russia.The indings presented here demonstrate that the success of electoral reform depends not only on the speciication of new electoral rules per se but also on the political context-and especially the constitutional framework-within which such rules are embedded. AcknowledgmentsThe genesis of this volume lies in an attempt to answer a basic research question that surfaced in a roundtable of the second annual Asian Election Studies Conference held at the Election Study Center (ESC) of the National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taiwan, in May 2010. Why was it that Taiwan and Japan, two similar East Asian countries that had both switched from similar single nontransferable vote to similar mixed-member majoritarian legislative electoral systems, had displayed such divergent speeds and degrees in moving toward the theoretically expected consolidation of their party systems? A brainstorm with Gary Cox during his visit to the ESC in November 2011 sparked the idea of taking into account the constitutional context in which the electoral systems operate.As with any book-length project, we have a number of people and institutions to thank. We thank the ESC and its director, Lu-huei Chen, for continuous administrative support throughout the life of the project. A book with twenty-one coauthors based in ifteen institutions spanning four countries needs some sort of institutional base, and the ESC provided that home. We also wish to acknowledge our four home institutions, the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica, National Chengchi University, the University of Canterbury, and Stanford University. ...

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Voting in a Floating Party System: The 1999 Duma Election

Cited by 103 publications

References 14 publications

Patterns of Participation in Post-Soviet Politics

Patterns of Participation in Post-Soviet Politics

The Effect of Governor Support on Legislative Behaviour in the RussianDuma

Mixed-Member Electoral Systems in Constitutional Context

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