ELECTORAL PARTICIPATION IN POST - COMMUNIST ROMANIA
ELECTORAL PARTICIPATION IN POST - COMMUNIST ROMANIA

Summary/Abstract: The present research aims to identify the existence of a relationship between electoral participation in Romania and a number of factors, which were divided into institutional factors and non – institutional factors. An interpretation of the data obtained after an analysis of the electoral law and the scores of participation from four different types of elections (parliamentary, presidential, local and European Parliament elections) and the data obtained through programs such as the Public Opinion Barometer and the Standard Eurobarometer, leads us to the conclusion that electoral participation in Romania is influenced by the type of election and the voter’s confidence in the most important political institutions, but it cannot be associated with the electoral system used in elections and with the Romanians’ interest in politics.

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