Regional Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, 1990-1999

This book examines the effect of economic conditions on election results in five post-communist countries—Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic—in the first decade of post-communist elections. It is the first book length study of economic voting outside of established democracies, as well as one of the few comparative studies of voting in post-communist countries generally. The study relies on an original database composed of regional level economic, demographic, and ele...