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Series "Founding Elections in Eastern Europe"
 
Edited by Hans-Dieter Klingemann and Charles L. Taylor

This book series presents studies on the processes of democratic transformation and consolidation in the former communist countries and the states that succeeded them. Political scientists from Central and Eastern Europe analyze the first democratic elections held in their respective countries. The studies are grouped by state and structured in a manner that facilitates subsequent comparative research.

Published Volumes:
 
v The 1991 and 1993 Elections to the Polish Sejm (2006)
v Democratic Elections in Macedonia, 1990-2002 (2005)
v The 1999-2000 National Elections in Russia (2005)
v Albania's Democratic Elections, 1991-1997 (2004)
v Czech Republic: The First Elections in the New Republic, 1992-1996 (2003)
v Slovenia Between Continuity and Change, 1990-1997 (2002)
v Lithuania's Seimas Election 1996 (2001)
v Elections in Russia 1993-1996 (1999)
v Elections to the Hungarian National Assembly 1994 (1999)
v Elections to the Federal and Republican Parliaments of Yugoslavia (1998)
v The 1990 and 1992/93 Sabor Elections in Croatia (1997)
v The 1990 Election to the Bulgarian Grand National Assembly (1997)
v The 1990 Election to the Czechoslovakian Federal Assembly (1996)
v The 1990 Election to the Hungarian National Assembly: (1995)
 



Series "Founding Elections in Eastern Europe," Volume 14:

Krzysztof Jasiewicz, Radosław Markowski (Eds.)
Berlin: edition sigma 2006
ISBN-10: 3-89404-244-3
ISBN-13: 978-3-89404-244-8
301 pages, € 22,90
The 1991 and 1993 Elections to the Polish Sejm
Analyses, Documents and Data
Series „Founding Elections in Eastern Europe“, edited by Hans-Dieter Klingemann and Charles L. Taylor

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Series "Founding Elections in Eastern Europe," Volume 13:

Svetomir Škarić
with a contribution by Hossein Shala
Berlin: edition sigma 2005
ISBN 3-89404-242-7
327 pages, € 22,90
Democratic Elections in Macedonia, 1990-2002
Analyses, Documents and Data

One can almost say that Macedonia is a state that came about involuntarily. Its people did not endorse Yugoslavia’s dissolution. Nevertheless, the country has seen this historical upheaval through and has developed a national identity, democratic political institutions, a market economy, and structures of civil society. This volume is dedicated to a dimension of this transition into the new era: the development and implementation of democratic processes in parliamentary, presidential, and local elections since 1990. Special attention is given to the constant experimentation with constitutional and electoral legislation and its effect on the election outcomes. Discussion also focuses on the formation and activity of political parties and of the country’s political groupings, which are in constant flux. The most important parties and coalitions in each election are described. A concluding chapter deals with the electorate’s voting behavior of and indicates that ethnic ties have the strongest effects. Ethnic politics remains a key factor of Macedonia’s political change. A detailed appendix documents the electoral laws, their change over time, and other matters.

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Series "Founding Elections in Eastern Europe," Volume 12:

Vladimir Gel'man, Grigoril V. Golosov, Elena Meleshkina (Eds.)
Berlin: edition sigma 2005
ISBN 3-89404-241-9
229 pages, € 18,90
The 1999-2000 National Elections in Russia
Analyses, Documents and Data

For this volume, a group of Russian political scientists and sociologists has carefully documented and analyzed the election to the Duma of 1999 and the Russian presidential election of 2000. This work builds upon an earlier project of 1996. That research was published as Elections in Russia, 1993-1996 Analyses, Documents and Data (Berlin: edition sigma, 1999). The new volume devotes greater attention to detailed analyses of electoral and coalition strategies and to the effects of the electoral system on the results of the elections. It also includes a thorough analysis of the regional distribution of electoral support for Russian political parties. A major theme that surfaces throughout the volume is the question of Russias future as a democratic state.
Social scientists in the former communist countries have developed and adapted sophisticated disciplinary techniques to examine the post-communist experience. These include statistical analysis of electoral results and public opinion survey data. The data used in the analyses for this book are described and documented in an appendix.

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Series "Founding Elections in Eastern Europe," Volume 11:

Kosta Barjaba (Ed.)
 Berlin: edition sigma 2004
ISBN 3-89404-237-0
283 pages, € 21,90
Albania’s Democratic Elections, 1991-1997
Analyses, Documents and Data

Albania is a country which has little experience with a pluralist political culture. This is not surprising because it suffered five centuries of Ottoman rule and became independent only recently. Subsequently it suffered a rather anarchic development although it enjoyed an at least formally democratic period between the two World Wars. After World War II Albania had to endure one of the most orthodox totalitarian regimes which quite effectively isolated the country from the rest of the world.
This volume provides information and analyses of the first competitive elections after the recent transition from autocratic to democratic rule. It portrays the most important obstacles, causes and consequences in its development towards political pluralism. Authors comprise an important group of Albanian social scientists which monitors elections and the development of the democratic process.

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Series "Founding Elections in Eastern Europe," Volume 10:

Zdenka Mansfeldová (Ed.)
Berlin: edition sigma 2003
ISBN 3-89404-226-6
371 pages, € 25,90
Czech Republic: The First Elections in the New Republic, 1992-1996
Analyses, Documents and Data

The parliamentary elections in 1992 and 1996 provide the focus for this investigation of the state of democratization in the Czech Republic. Of particular importance to the analysis is the degree to which the political party system has been crystallized. The initial response to the communists in 1989-1990 was a mass civic movement that was undifferentiated with regard to a number of interests and values. The transformation of this mass opposition into a stable multi-party system with the potential for supporting an alternation of coalitions in government was delayed by the break-up of the Czechoslovak federation after the 1992 election. Since then cleavages have begun to emerge whose oppositions can be articulated by effective political parties. Stable government also depends upon election results that will give sufficient seats in the legislature to winning parties to allow stable voting blocs. The electoral system adopted in the early 1990s, along with the large ideological distances among the political parties, made it difficult to form effective coalitions, but significant changes in the electoral law in 2000 promise to ease this task.

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Series "Founding Elections in Eastern Europe," Volume 9:

Niko Toš, Vlado Miheljak (Eds.)
Berlin: edition sigma 2002
ISBN 3-89404-223-0
243 Seiten, € 18,90
Slovenia Between Continuity and Change, 1990-1997
Analyses, Documents and Data

Are success stories conceivable on the ruins of the former Yugoslavia? The case of Slovenia with its political and economic consolidation and its admirable transition to democracy is such a story. To understand this story, one must look not only at the current political situation in Slovenia but also at the special role this small country played in the earlier Yugoslav state. This volume tries to clarify the relatively stable moorings of Slovenian democracy. Following an introductory overview, several contributions are devoted to various aspects of the transition to a parliamentary democracy. These include examinations of the formation of the party system, the distribution of seats within parliament, the role of women in the politics of the new democracy, the characteristics of the electorate, and the details of the electoral law. The book covers the parliamentary and presidential elections between 1990 and 1997 and the debate about changes in the electoral law for the 2000 election. It includes detailed information about election participation and election results of each election and about the electoral law as well as an inventory of the current political parties and their predecessors.

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Series "Founding Elections in Eastern Europe," Volume 8:

Algis Krupavicius (Ed.)
Berlin: edition sigma 2001
ISBN 3-89404-215-X
367 Seiten, DM € 24,90
Lithuania's Seimas Election 1996: The Third Turnover
Analyses, Documents and Data

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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Series "Founding Elections in Eastern Europe," Volume 7:

Vladimir Gel'man, Grigorii V. Golosov (Eds.)
Berlin: edition sigma 1999
ISBN 3-89404-198-6
475 Seiten, € 28,90
Elections in Russia 1993-1996
Analyses, Documents and Data

Free and fair elections are essential for the consolidation of new democracies. In Russia, the emergence of independent academic electoral research signified an important step toward democracy. Yet, consolidation of democracy in Russia still is an unfinished project. What is the role played by elections in the political development of contemporary Russia? How do political institutions interact with voting behavior? Do elections matter at all? This volume, which is part of the series “Founding Elections in Eastern Europe,” addresses these and other questions by analyzing the 1993 and 1995 Duma elections and the 1996 presidential election in Russia. The chapters describe and analyze different stages of electoral politics starting with 1989, give an insight into the development of electoral laws and political parties and their impact on electoral strategies and voting behavior, and focus on independent candidates and Russian voters in general. A comprehensive appendix provides the readers with a wealth of factual information about Russian elections.

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Series "Founding Elections in Eastern Europe," Volume 6:

Gábor Tóka, Zsolt Enyedi (Eds.)
Berlin: edition sigma 1999
ISBN 3-89404-184-6
318 Seiten, € 22,90
Elections to the Hungarian National Assembly 1994
Analyses, Documents and Data

The analyses focus on the development of the Hungarian party system between the first free election in 1990 and the second one in 1994. Chapters deal with political parties, the effects of the election law, social cleavages and the party system, recruitment of candidates, as well as with attitudes of the Hungarian voters. The election and party laws are documented in the appendix. Further documented here are the surveys used in the analyses which are available for secondary analysis at the Zentralarchiv für empirische Sozialforschung, University of Cologne.

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Series "Founding Elections in Eastern Europe," Volume 5:

Vladimir Goati (Ed.)
Berlin: edition sigma 1998
ISBN 3-89404-181-1
397 Seiten, € 24,90

Elections in the Federal and Republican Parliaments of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) 1990-1996
Analyses, Documents and Data

The analyses presented in this book focus on the first phase of competitive elections to the federal and republican assemblies of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro; 1990-1996). They describe the institutional settings and explain the development of political parties, the electoral behavior of the public, and the formation of government. Appendices provide the party and election laws as well as essential datasets prepared for secondary analysis by the Zentralarchiv für Empirische Sozialforschung in Cologne.

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Series "Founding Elections in Eastern Europe," Volume 4:

Ivan Siber (Ed.)
Berlin: edition sigma 1997
ISBN 3-89404-177-3
215 Seiten, € 16,90

The 1990 and 1992/93 Sabor Elections in Croatia
Analyses, Documents and Data

The emergence and formation of multi-party systems in Eastern Europe represents one of the most important and challenging fields for political research in the 1990s. The series "Founding Elections in Eastern Europe" is dedicated to the analysis of these processes. Each country-related volume deals with the first and/or subsequent elections for the national parliament in terms of the political parties’ history, the electoral system, the electoral behavior of the population, and the formation of government. All volumes include appendices documenting parties and election laws as well as survey data available for secondary analysis.

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Series "Founding Elections in Eastern Europe," Volume 3:

Georgi Karasimeonov (Ed.)
Berlin: edition sigma 1997
ISBN 3-89404-156-X
156 Seiten, € 16,90

The 1990 Election to the Bulgarian Grand National Assembly and the 1991 Election to the Bulgarian National Assembly
Analyses, Documents and Data

The analyses presented in this book focus on the 1990 election to the Bulgarian Grand National Assembly and the 1991 election to the Bulgarian National Assembly. They give a detailed insight into the emergence of political parties, the electoral law and the election system, the electoral behavior of the population during political transition as well as into political culture and government formation. The book includes appendices documenting Bulgarian parties and election laws as well as datasets essential for secondary analysis.

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Series "Founding Elections in Eastern Europe," Volume 2:

Ivan Gabal (Ed.)
Berlin: edition sigma 1996
ISBN 3-89404-158-7
198 Seiten, € 16,90

The 1990 Election to the Czechoslovakian Federal Assembly
Analyses, Documents and Data

The analyses presented in this book focus on the election to the Czechoslovakian Federal Assembly in June 1990. They describe and explain the development of the political parties, the social and political features of the candidates in this parliamentary election, the electoral behavior of the public, and the formation of government. Appendices provide the party and election laws as well as essential datasets prepared for secondary analysis by the Zentralarchiv für empirische Sozialforschung in Cologne. The book is part of the series of comparative country-specific studies on "Founding Elections in Eastern Europe," edited by Hans-Dieter Klingemann and Charles L. Taylor and sponsored by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.

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Series "Founding Elections in Eastern Europe," Volume 1:

Gábor Tóka (Ed.)
Berlin: edition sigma 1995
ISBN 3-89404-150-1
198 Seiten, € 16,90

The 1990 Election to the Hungarian National Assembly:
Analyses, Documents and Data

This book describes the restructuring of the Hungarian party system after the collapse of Communism. It further examines from different perspectives the results of the first election to the Hungarian National Assembly. Here, the historical context, the legal framework, the programs and resources of the main parties, the political and social background of the candidates for the parliamentary election, the election results, characteristics of the electorate, and the phase of government formation are subjects of the book. The book includes appendices documenting the Hungarian party and election law as well as datasets essential for secondary analysis. This book is the first one in a series of comparative country-specific studies on "Founding Elections" in Eastern Europe, edited by Hans-Dieter Klingemann and Charles L. Taylor.

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