Regional and National Elections in Eastern Europe

List of Tables and Figures.- Acknowledgements.- Notes on Contributors.- 1. Introduction: An Analytical Framework for Studying Territoriality of the Vote in Eastern Europe; Arjan H. Schakel and Régis Dandoy.- 2. Bosnia and Herzegovina: An Archetypical Example of an Ethnocracy; John Husley and Dejan Stjepanovic.- 3. Croatia: Elections for Weak Counties When Regionalization is Not Finished Yet; Ivan Kopric, Daria Dubajic, Tijana Vukojicic Tomic and Romea Manojlovic.- 4. Czech Republic: Regional Elections without Regional Politics; Michal Pink.- 5. Hungary: Are Neglected Regional Elections Second-Order Elections?; Gábor Dobos and Réka Várnagy.- 6. Poland: Nationalization Despite Fear of Regionalization; Wojciech Gagatek and Michal Kotnarowski.-7. Romania: Regional Persistence in a Highly Nationalized Party System; Drago Dragoman and Bogdan Gheroghi a.- 8. Russia: Nationalization Achieved Through Electoral and Institutional Engineering; Derek Hutcheson and Arjan H. Schakel.- 9. Serbia and Montenegro. From Centralization to Secession and Multi-Ethnic Regionalism; Christina Isabel Zuber and Jelena Dzankic.- 10. Slovakia: The Unbearable Lightness of Regionalisation; Marek Rybár and Peter Spác.- 11. Turkey: Provincial Elections as a Barometer of National Politics; Emanuele Massetti and Sait Aksit.-12. Conclusion: Towards an Explanation of the Territoriality of the Vote in Eastern Europe; Arjan H. Schakel.- Bibliography.- Index.

Arjan H. Schakel is Assistant Professor at Maastricht University, Netherlands. His research on regional elections and regional parties has appeared in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of Political Research, Party Politics and West European Politics. He is the co-author of the book Measuring Regional Authority (2016) and co-editor of the book Regional and National Elections in Western Europe (2013).