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Explaining post-communist founding elections results through initial state capacity

While a consensus is emerging about the importance of state building and state capacity for democratization in both post-communist and developing countries, comparatively few explicit attempts have been made to provide empirical support for the relationship between the two concepts. Even more problematic is to find an explicit causal mechanism linking high state capacity with democracy. State capacity can be understood as the capability of the state to penetrate society, regulate social relations, extract resources, and appropriate or use resources in determined ways. In other words, strong states have high capabilities to complete these tasks, while weak states struggle to compete with private actors over extraction and appropriation of resources. But what makes strong states more likely to be democratic and, in turn, weak states less likely to be democratic? This article explores whether or not state capacity correlates with the outcomes of founding elections, that is, the first open elections in post-communist countries. In other words, do voters in states with higher initial capacity also tend to “throw the communist rascals out” in the founding elections? (author's abstract)

Explaining post-communist founding elections results through initial state capacity

Urheber*in: Fortin-Rittberger, Jessica

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ISSN
0888-3254
Umfang
Seite(n): 724-742
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Erschienen in
East European politics and societies and cultures : EEPS, 26(4)

Thema
Staatsformen und Regierungssysteme
Politikwissenschaft
Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Demokratie
Demokratisierung
Transformation
Osteuropa
öffentliches Gut
Staatsfunktion
Rechtsstaat
Bürgerrecht
Wahl
Wahlverhalten
Wahlergebnis
postsozialistisches Land
politische Institution
Staatlichkeit
Staatstätigkeit
Zivilgesellschaft
statistische Methode

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Fortin-Rittberger, Jessica
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
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Deutschland
(wann)
2012

DOI
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-441873
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  • Fortin-Rittberger, Jessica

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  • 2012

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