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Romania: Regional Persistence in a Highly Nationalized Party System
Bogdan GheorghițăDragoş Dragomansubject
Local electionElectoral system05 social sciences0507 social and economic geography0506 political scienceCompetition (economics)PoliticsNational electionPolitical economyPolitical scienceCounty council050602 political science & public administrationNational levelEconomic systemDimension (data warehouse)050703 geographydescription
Romania has a nationalized party system whereby the effective number of parliamentary parties has gone down and the left-right dimension of political competition has become consolidated. Statewide parties manage to electorally homogenize the electorate through using a similar electoral system for regional and national elections and by holding regional elections just before national elections. However, in this chapter, we also find that regional parties are persistently present in some regions and some of them mobilize voters along an ethno-cultural dimension. These regional parties do not only have an important impact at the regional level by offering alternative policy options but they are also important at the national level as, for instance, was the case of the mayor of Sibiu who was elected president of Romania in 2014.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-01-01 |