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Elections as Opinion Polls: A Comparison of the Voting Patterns in Post-Communist Central Europe and Slovakia

Votruba, Martin Elections as Opinion Polls: A Comparison of the Voting Patterns in Post-Communist Central Europe and Slovakia. In: Panel 8-02 The Anomalies of Slovak Electoral Politics in Central European Perspective, 21 November 1997 - 21 November 1997, Seattle, WA. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

The results of Slovakia's elections were strikingly different from the rest of post-Communist Central Europe in two respects for much of the 1990s. It had the greatest difference between the first and second largest parties, Vladimír Mečiar’s HZDS party was 3.3 times larger than its next competitor. Even more significantly, the remaining votes showed the greatest dispersion of all the countries. Slovakia’s situation was not different because the majority of the adults preferred HZDS, they did not. What was different was the substantial dispersal of the remaining votes. Those who did not vote for HZDS did not lean to any detectable degree towards one alternative among the parties that campaigned against Mečiar.


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Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Status: Unpublished
Creators/Authors:
CreatorsEmailPitt UsernameORCID
Votruba, Martinvotruba@pitt.eduVOTRUBA
Centers: Other Centers, Institutes, Offices, or Units > Center for Russian and East European Studies
Event Title: Panel 8-02 The Anomalies of Slovak Electoral Politics in Central European Perspective
Event Dates: 21 November 1997 - 21 November 1997
Event Type: Conference
Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Schools and Programs: Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > Slavic Languages and Literatures
Refereed: Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords: elections, in, Slovakia, elections, in, post-Communist, Central, Europe, Vladimír, Mečiar, elections, in, Central, Europe, elections, results, in, 1990s, HZDS, Movement, for, a, Democratic, Slovakia, Slovak, elections, in, 1994
Official URL: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass
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Date Deposited: 19 Jan 2010 16:07
Last Modified: 25 Aug 2017 05:11
URI: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/2808

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