Regional Elections are really Second Order Elections
Regional Elections are really Second Order Elections

Summary/Abstract: Most of the texts dedicated to second-order elections deal with analyses of European elections. Even less important elections, however, have the character of voting against the government. Th e goal of this study is to point out the role of regional elections in the Czech Republic, and to demonstrate that the concept of second-order elections depends on above all the current phase of the election cycle. Th e eff ect of second-orderness can be truly considered only in the phase when the national governing party has reached its lowest popularity.

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