Titlebook: Regional and National Elections in Eastern Europe; Territoriality of th Arjan H. Schakel Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Au

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Romania: Regional Persistence in a Highly Nationalized Party System, have an important impact at the regional level by offering alternative policy options but they are also important at the national level as, for instance, was the case of the mayor of Sibiu who was elected president of Romania in 2014.

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Slovakia: The Unbearable Lightness of Regionalization,is trend can be interpreted as ‘departyisation’ of regional politics rather than regionalization. Regional elections may be conceived as ‘barometer elections’ whereby voters do not use their vote to punish parties in national government. Rather, the regional vote indicates the electoral prospects of parties in the upcoming national election.

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Turkey: Provincial Elections as a Barometer of National Politics,nor systematically reward new/opposition parties vis-à-vis government parties. Rather, they appear to show how people would vote in a national election. Provincial elections tend, therefore, to follow trends emerged in the previous national election and/or to anticipate trends that will manifest themselves in the following national election.

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Conclusion: Towards an Explanation of the Territoriality of the Vote in Eastern Europe,or the East but a discussion of the insights provided by the country chapters leads to the identification of variables that seem to specifically impact the regional vote in Eastern European regions. The chapter ends with a discussion on the implications of the research findings.

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Introduction: An Analytical Framework for Studying Territoriality of the Vote in Eastern Europe,e which is applied in each of the country chapters. We compare 10 Eastern European countries to 13 West European countries which allows us to explore differences in congruence between regional and national elections and second-order effects in regional elections. The comparison also helps us to sugg

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Bosnia and Herzegovina: An Archetypical Example of an Ethnocracy,ovina’s party system can be best described is as an ‘ethnocracy’, whereby representation and contestation is channeled through parties defined by ethnic divisions. Ethnic divisions in Bosnia are reflected across the whole party system which results in high levels of congruence across all type of ele

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