When cultural strength means political weakness: Romania’s marriage referendum and the paradox of conservative mobilisation-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

When cultural strength means political weakness: Romania’s marriage referendum and the paradox of conservative mobilisation

Published:2020-06-01 Issue:2 Volume:28 Page:70-80
ISSN:1210-8812
Container-title:Moravian Geographical Reports
language:en
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Author:

Racu Alexandru¹,Giugăl Aurelian²,Johnston Ron³,Gavriş Alexandru⁴

Affiliation:

1. Independent Researcher , Bucharest , Romania

2. Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies ; Interdisciplinary Center of Advanced Research on Territorial Dynamics, University of Bucharest , Romania

3. School of Geographical Sciences , University of Bristol , UK

4. Faculty of Business and Tourism , The Bucharest University of Economic Studies , Romania

Abstract

Abstract Held on 6–7 October 2018, the Romanian referendum on the topic of gay marriage was the fourth referendum of this kind organised in East Central Europe over a five-year period. Because turnout was low in all of them and demands explanation, this paper: i) discusses the common characteristics of these Eastern European marriage referendums, contextualising the Romanian referendum; ii) overviews the history of the Romanian referendum, emphasising the legal, political, ideological and societal aspects; iii) quantitatively examines the electoral geography of the voting patterns; and iv) interprets qualitative data seeking to understand the voters’ choices and why conservative mobilisation was so weak.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

General Earth and Planetary Sciences,Geography, Planning and Development

Link

https://www.sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/mgr-2020-0006

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