Preferential Voting and the Party-Electorate Relationship in Slovakia

Party Politics, (2014) Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 521-532

12 Pages Posted: 9 Jul 2014

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Miroslav Beblavy

Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

Marcela Veselkova

Slovak Governance Institute

Date Written: June 18, 2014

Abstract

In this article we use concentration of electoral support for individual candidates and divergence between party and electorate preferences for candidates to test hypotheses about the party-electorate relationship. We test these using data from preferential voting in Slovak general elections between 1998 and 2010. Our results suggest that low concentration is associated with parties based on ideology and high concentration with parties based on leadership. Age of the party fails to predict the concentration or the divergence. For coalitions, type of coalition matters in regard to divergence. Furthermore, we document that divergence increases with the size of the electoral support, though this seems to be true only for larger parties.

Keywords: preferential voting, Slovakia, party-electorate relationship

JEL Classification: D72

Suggested Citation

Beblavy, Miroslav and Veselkova, Marcela, Preferential Voting and the Party-Electorate Relationship in Slovakia (June 18, 2014). Party Politics, (2014) Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 521-532, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2456152

Miroslav Beblavy (Contact Author)

Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) ( email )

1 Place du Congres
Brussels, 1000
Belgium

Marcela Veselkova

Slovak Governance Institute ( email )

Kalinciakova 27
Bratislava, 83104
Slovakia

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