Old Empires, Modern State: Legacies of Partitions on Voting Behaviour in the 2023 Polish Parliamentary Elections-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Old Empires, Modern State: Legacies of Partitions on Voting Behaviour in the 2023 Polish Parliamentary Elections

Published:2024-06-01 Issue:2 Volume:20 Page:211-235
ISSN:2787-9038
Container-title:Politics in Central Europe
language:en
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Author:

Wenzel Michał¹^ORCID,Żerkowska-Balas Marta²^ORCID,Matusiak Daniel³^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Michał Wenzel, PhD, is associate professor at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw . His research interests include: political attitudes and communication, methodology of political research, as well as civil society development and labour movements in Central and Eastern Europe.

2. Marta Żerkowska-Balas, PhD, is a sociologist and political scientist at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw . She studies mechanisms of political decision-making, relations between citizens and political parties, and the theory and practice of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe.

3. Daniel Matusiak is a doctoral student at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw . He is a sociologist interested in election campaigns and civil society. He combines quantitative and qualitative methods.

Abstract

Abstract The legacies of former partitions are still visible in today’s Poland in the economy, society and politics. Our article integrates the historical and geographical perspective into the study of electoral behaviour in Poland. We conduct a geographical description of electoral results in the 2023 parliamentary elections and determine how economic and cultural attributes related to different paths of development associated with the former partitions are reflected in the apparent spatial differences. We distinguish between direct and indirect influence. It is indirect when differences in economic development (e.g. changes in agrarian structures) or cultural transformations (e.g. secularisation) resulting from former policies are reflected in different electoral choices. The influence is direct if belonging to a former empire determines electoral behaviour regardless of the economic and cultural determinants of the vote. We found that the influence concerns primarily the former Russian and Austrian regions. The analysis is conducted at the county (powiat) level.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Link

https://www.sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/pce-2024-0009

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