Old empires, modern state: Legacies of partitions on voting behaviour in the 2023 polish parliamentary elections

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dc.abstract.enThe 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.
dc.affiliationInstytut Nauk Społecznych
dc.affiliationWydział Nauk Społecznych w Warszawie
dc.contributor.authorWenzel, Michał
dc.contributor.authorŻerkowska-Balas, Marta
dc.contributor.authorMatusiak, Daniel
dc.date.access2024-07-23
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-19T08:02:53Z
dc.date.available2025-02-19T08:02:53Z
dc.date.created2024-06-09
dc.date.issued2024-07-23
dc.description.abstract<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>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.</jats:p>
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dc.description.grantnumber2021/41/B/HS5/00536
dc.description.granttitlerom Samoobrona [Selfdefence] to Agrounia: rural social movements in Poland after 1989
dc.description.issue2
dc.description.physical211-235
dc.description.versionfinal_published
dc.description.volume20
dc.identifier.doi10.2478/pce-2024-0009
dc.identifier.issn1801-3422
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/1301
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/pce-2024-0009
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationnauki socjologiczne
dc.pbn.affiliationnauki o polityce i administracji
dc.rightsCC-BY-NC-ND
dc.rights.questionYes_rights
dc.share.articleOPEN_JOURNAL
dc.subject.en2023 elections in Poland
dc.subject.enCentral Europe
dc.subject.enhistorical legacies
dc.subject.enparty politics
dc.subject.enspatial analysis
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dc.titleOld empires, modern state: Legacies of partitions on voting behaviour in the 2023 polish parliamentary elections
dc.title.journalPolitics in Central Europe
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typeArticle