The idiosyncratic dynamics of party system nationalization in Russia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6357846 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Grigorii V Golosov (0000-0001-9769-9230, European University at Saint Petersburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 397-419 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Post-Soviet Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-586X • E-ISSN: 1938-2855 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1060586x.2014.926633 |
| OpenAlex | W1997691835 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 62 |
This article uses data from the 1993–2011 national legislative elections in Russia in order to systematically measure and explain the dynamics of party system nationalization. The analysis registers a salient discrepancy between the extremely low levels of territorial homogeneity of the vote in the single-member plurality section of Russia's electoral system (1993–2003), on the one hand, and very high levels of party nationalization in party-list contests, on the other. This discrepancy, facilitated by such factors as the legacies of regime transition, federalism, and presidentialism, was reinforced by the integration of gubernatorial political machines into the nationwide political order, which ultimately resulted in unprecedentedly high levels of party nationalization in the 2007–2011 elections. The findings challenge a conventional theory that equates the formation of national electorates to the progressive process of party system consolidation, suggesting that under certain conditions, related but not reducible to the authoritarian perversion of the structure of electoral incentives, there is no such linear relationship
Authoritarianism · Consolidation (business · Democracy · Economic system · Economics · Electoral system · Federalism · Incentive · Legislative process · Legislature · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Political system · Politics · Presidential system · Salient · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Public Administration · Accounting
Geographic Factors of Voting in Russian Regions
Russia’s centralized authoritarianism in the disguise of democratic federalism
Useful, but Not Necessarily Idiots
Gubernatorial Powers in Russia
The dual logic of Russia's party system nationalization
Volatility in Electoral Support for United Russia
The dynamic nationalisation of voting for United Russia
Parties in Russia
Litigation and political transformation
Why Not Parties in Russia?
The Personal Vote
The Efficient Secret
Presidents and Assemblies
Making Votes Count
A Unified Theory of Voting
Why Parties?
The Nationalization of Politics
The political consequences of electoral laws
Electoral Authoritarianism
Candidate Strategies and Electoral Competition in the Russian Federation
Media and Political Persuasion
Location and Political Influence
The 2012 Political Reform in Russia
Geographical Patterns of Party Support in the Baltic States, Russia, and Ukraine
The Nationalization of political parties and party systems in post-communist Eastern Europe
Sub-National Elections in Russia
The Regional Roots of Electoral Authoritarianism in Russia
The Nationalisation of Post-Communist Party Systems
Russia's Regional Legislative Elections, 2003–2007
Voting in a Floating Party System
The Personal Vote
The Laakso-Taagepera Index in A Mean and Variance Framework
The Advent of Multipartism in Russia, 1993-95
Programmatic Party Cohesion in Emerging Postcommunist Democracies
Nationalization of the Electorate in the United States
Party Nationalization and Institutions
Engineering Victory
Explaining Machine Politics in Russia's Regions
Regional patrons and hegemonic party electoral performance in Russia
The Decline of a Dominant Party and the Destabilization of Electoral Authoritarianism
The territorial genealogies of Russia's political parties and the transferability of political machines
Three dilemmas of hybrid regime governance
The Combined Impact of Decentralisation and Personalism on the Nationalisation of Party Systems
Dual accountability and the nationalization of party competition
The Nationalization of Parties and Party Systems
Party system nationalization
A supply-demand model of party-system institutionalization
Measuring Party Linkage across Districts
The Effective Number of Parties
An institutional explanation of party system congruence
Institutional factors and Russian political parties
From ‘feckless pluralism’ to ‘dominant power politics’? The transformation of Russia's party system
Effective” Number of Parties
Authoritarian Institutions and the Survival of Autocrats
Presidents and Parties
Decentralization and the Development of Nationalized Party Systems in New Democracies
Dominant Party Regimes and the Commitment Problem
Political Order and One-Party Rule
The Origins and Strengths of Regional Parties
Party support or personal resources? Factors of success in the plurality portion of the 1999 national legislative elections in Russia
Russia's 'permanent' (uninterrupted) elections of 1999-2000
Seven imperatives for improving the measurement of party nationalization with Evidence from Chile
Measuring party nationalisation
The nationalization of party systems
| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 0,9 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |