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Тема доклада: "Increasing turnout inequality in Post-Communist Eastern Europe: economic disengagement or a progression to normalcy? " 
Докладчик: Ksenia Northmore-Ball (University of Oxford)

Аннотация:

Post-Communist countries, with the exception of Belarus, Russia, and Hungary, have seen a decline in turnout since their first democratic elections. Studies that have so far examined this decline attribute it to a fading of the founding election euphoria (Kostadinova 2003, Kostadinova and Power 2007, and Pacek et al 2009). These studies, however, use only aggregate data and thus do not examine whether the decline has been even across all social groups. This paper instead uses pooled cross-sectional individual level data covering the period 1990 to 2007 across 12 post-Communist countries and asks if the lower turnout can be explained by frustration and disengagement among those people who benefited the least from the transition to a market economy. This new data confirms that the fall in turnout is mostly due to the wearing-off of founding election euphoria and a progression towards "normal" turnout patterns seen in established democracies where advantaged citizens are much more likely to vote than the disadvantaged. Other factors such as economic disengagement are found to be negligible in explaining the decline in voting.

 

Рабочий язык: английский