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Research Unit: Institutions and Social Change |
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"Founding Elections in Eastern Europe"
Volume 8 |
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"Founding Elections
in Eastern Europe"
Edited by Hans-Dieter Klingemann and Charles L. Taylor
Volume 8:
Algis Krupavicius (ed.):
Lithuania's Seimas Election 1996: The
Third Turnover
Analyses, Documents and Data
Berlin: edition sigma 2001
ISBN 3-89404-215-X
367 pages, € 24,90 |
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The advancement of the new democracies of
Eastern Europe depends upon free and fair elections. In
Lithuania, the consolidation of democracy got underway as the
political parties became organized and as they began to find
their natural sources of support among appropriate categories
of voters. It continues as power is transferred from party to
party in regular elections. This volume, one in the series
"Founding Elections in Eastern Europe", examines these and
other changes that are taking place in Lithuania. It devotes
particular attention to the electoral campaign of 1996,
changes of public opinion between the elections of 1992 and
1996, political regionalism, the evolution of the party
system, problems of voter turnout, the results of the election
of 1996, and the formation of the new government. Although its
focus is the 1996 election, the analysis is placed within the
larger context of Lithuania’s political history. The volume
includes a history of the evolution of parliamentary democracy
in the early 1920s and in the period since the late 1980s and
an analysis of the voting systems employed in the new
democracy. |
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