Old empires, modern state: Legacies of partitions on voting behaviour in the 2023 polish parliamentary elections
Old empires, modern state: Legacies of partitions on voting behaviour in the 2023 polish parliamentary elections
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Wenzel, Michał
Żerkowska-Balas, Marta
Matusiak, Daniel
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2024-07-23
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Politics in Central Europe
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2
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20
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211-235
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1801-3422
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2024-07-23
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The legacies of former partitions are still visible in today’s Poland in the economy, society and politics. Our article integrates the historical and geographical perspective into the study of electoral behaviour in Poland. We conduct a geographical description of electoral results in the 2023 parliamentary elections and determine how economic and cultural attributes related to different paths of development associated with the former partitions are reflected in the apparent spatial differences. We distinguish between direct and indirect influence. It is indirect when differences in economic development (e.g. changes in agrarian structures) or cultural transformations (e.g. secularisation) resulting from former policies are reflected in different electoral choices. The influence is direct if belonging to a former empire determines electoral behaviour regardless of the economic and cultural determinants of the vote. We found that the influence concerns primarily the former Russian and Austrian regions. The analysis is conducted at the county (powiat) level.
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2023 elections in Poland
Central Europe
historical legacies
party politics
spatial analysis
Central Europe
historical legacies
party politics
spatial analysis
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