The Determinants of Electoral Volatility (review of the book "Determinanty chwiejności wyborczej").

• Authors: Stelmach Katarzyna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The last presidential elections gave rise numerous questions and doubts – particularly in the scientific and media environments – regarding the conditions for electoral behaviors in Poles, as signaled by the results achieved by particular candidates. The media discourse abounded in more or less definite statements regarding voter turnout data for particular population groups, the destabilization of the electorate’s political preferences and the phenomenon of the transfer of votes in between the supporters of particular candidates, both in the historical approach and in the course of the election campaign. The intensity and temperature of these discussions were indicative of the fact how poorly this area is penetrated empirically.

Keywords

EN

book review

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Polish Political Science Yearbook
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 44
• Pages: 310-315

Contributors

author

Stelmach Katarzyna

• Silesian University in Katowice

References

• Bartolini, S., Mair, P. (2007). Identity, competition and electoral availability: The stabilization of European electorates, 1885–1985. ECPR Press.
• Lachat, R. (2004). Explaining electoral volatility: Predispositions’ strength, heuristics, and political sophistication. Lund. Retrieved from http://www.romain-lachat.ch/papers/ispp2004.pdf
• Turska-Kawa A., (2015). Determinanty chwiejności wyborczej. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego.

Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/ppsy2015023