Much More Than Economy
Assessing Electoral Accountability in the CEE Member States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12940201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea Fumarola (0000-0001-8809-9866, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 51-68 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politics in Central Europe (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1801-3422 • E-ISSN: 2787-9038 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/pce-2016-0012 |
| OpenAlex | W2532074189 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 40 |
Electoral accountability is considered the mechanism through which voters hold governments responsible for their performance. Questioning the traditional approach of economic voting theory, the article focuses on the influence exerted by the political context—comprehensively considered as government clarity of responsibility, availability of governing alternatives, electoral formula, and freedom of the media—on the accountability mechanism in eleven countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Using individual and aggregate data collected after the 2014 European Elections by the European Election Study (EES), the present article analyses this process in its double dimension of answerability and enforcement (Schedler 1999). Our findings suggest that voters’ ability to express discontent with economic performance in new European democracies is strongly influenced by specific characteristics of the political context. A stable and cohesive government as well as a free media system, in particular, seem to facilitate performance voting in the region
Accountability · CLARITY · Context (archaeology · Dimension (graph theory · Economic system · Economics · Enforcement · Government (linguistics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Public Administration
The Self-Restraining State
Changes for DemocracyActors, Structures, Processes
The Economic Vote
Economic Models of Voting
Democracy and the Market
The Weakness of Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe
The political economy of government responsiveness
Electoral Systems and Political Transformation in Post-Communist Europe
Linkages of Electoral Accountability
Introduction to the Special Issue
Learning the Economic Vote
The Media and Economic Voting in Israel
Uncertainty in the Transition
The Quality of Democracy after Joining the European Union
Macroeconomics, economic crisis and electoral outcomes
Economic Voting in Postcommunist Eastern Europe
Democracy, Accountability, and Representation
Economic Chaos and the Fragility of Democratic Transition in Former Communist Regimes
The Quality of Democracy
Economic voting
A stable popularity function? Cross-national analysis
What is a ‘good’ democracy
Communism's Shadow
Public Support for Economic Reforms in Poland
Economics and Elections Revisited
The End of Economic Voting? Contingency Dilemmas and the Limits of Democratic Accountability
Economic Determinants of Electoral Outcomes
A Cross-National Analysis of Economic Voting
Electoral Accountability and the Variety of Democratic Regimes
Who’s to Blame? The Distribution of Responsibility in Developing Democracies
Why does democracy need education
Post-socialist democratization
Pain tolerance
The embarrassment of riches? A meta-analysis of individual-level research on voter turnout
Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946-2011
Cross-national analyses of economic voting
Economic voting and political context
Echoes from the Past
A Developmental Model of Heterogeneous Economic Voting in New Democracies
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |