Much More Than Economy: Assessing Electoral Accountability in the CEE Member States

Electoral accountability is considered the mechanism through which voters hold governments responsible for their performance. Questioning the traditional approach of economic voting theory, the article focuses on the influence exerted by the political context—comprehensively considered as government...

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Autor principal:	Fumarola Andrea
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Lenguaje:	CS EN SK
Publicado:	Sciendo 2016
Materias:	central-eastern europe electoral accountability political system mass media Political science J
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:717bd2a6606642b7a2069d6d1f53a7472021-12-02T15:27:45ZMuch More Than Economy: Assessing Electoral Accountability in the CEE Member States1801-342210.1515/pce-2016-0012https://doaj.org/article/717bd2a6606642b7a2069d6d1f53a7472016-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/pce-2016-0012https://doaj.org/toc/1801-3422Electoral accountability is considered the mechanism through which voters hold governments responsible for their performance. Questioning the traditional approach of economic voting theory, the article focuses on the influence exerted by the political context—comprehensively considered as government clarity of responsibility, availability of governing alternatives, electoral formula, and freedom of the media—on the accountability mechanism in eleven countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Using individual and aggregate data collected after the 2014 European Elections by the European Election Study (EES), the present article analyses this process in its double dimension of answerability and enforcement (Schedler 1999). Our findings suggest that voters’ ability to express discontent with economic performance in new European democracies is strongly influenced by specific characteristics of the political context. A stable and cohesive government as well as a free media system, in particular, seem to facilitate performance voting in the region.Fumarola AndreaSciendoarticlecentral-eastern europeelectoral accountabilitypolitical systemmass mediaPolitical scienceJCSENSKPolitics in Central Europe, Vol 12, Iss 2, Pp 51-68 (2016)
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description	Electoral accountability is considered the mechanism through which voters hold governments responsible for their performance. Questioning the traditional approach of economic voting theory, the article focuses on the influence exerted by the political context—comprehensively considered as government clarity of responsibility, availability of governing alternatives, electoral formula, and freedom of the media—on the accountability mechanism in eleven countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Using individual and aggregate data collected after the 2014 European Elections by the European Election Study (EES), the present article analyses this process in its double dimension of answerability and enforcement (Schedler 1999). Our findings suggest that voters’ ability to express discontent with economic performance in new European democracies is strongly influenced by specific characteristics of the political context. A stable and cohesive government as well as a free media system, in particular, seem to facilitate performance voting in the region.
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title	Much More Than Economy: Assessing Electoral Accountability in the CEE Member States
title_short	Much More Than Economy: Assessing Electoral Accountability in the CEE Member States
title_full	Much More Than Economy: Assessing Electoral Accountability in the CEE Member States
title_fullStr	Much More Than Economy: Assessing Electoral Accountability in the CEE Member States
title_full_unstemmed	Much More Than Economy: Assessing Electoral Accountability in the CEE Member States
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Much More Than Economy: Assessing Electoral Accountability in the CEE Member States

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