Cinpoes, Radu ORCID: 0009-0002-4930-5609 (2015) The dilemmas of political (mis-)representation: political "cruising" in Romania. Südosteuropa - Comparative Southeast European studies, 63 (1). pp. 95-113. ISSN 0722-480X - 2701-8202 (Print), 2364-933X - 2701-8199 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2015-630107)

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Abstract

This article analyses the widespread phenomenon of party switching, labelled “political cruising” in Romania, that characterises that state’s electoral politics . First, it considers party switching to be a dimension of fragmentation (alongside fusions and divisions within the parties themselves), which helps more accurately gauge the level of party system institutionalisation in a given case . Second, it looks at why individuals change parties and why parties accommodate and embrace such switching to explain why the phenomenon has reached endemic levels in Romania . Finally, the author suggests that the pervasive political “cruising” driven by clientelism in Romania has resulted in a lack of public trust in political institutions and a decrease in electoral turnout .

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Updated & modified by MP on Sep 19 2024. Pls note that this article has been published twice: in 2015 in the journal Südosteuropa, and republished in 2021 in the journal Comparative Southeast European studies under BY-NC-ND 4.0 license Open Access Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg (July 29, 2021). Here we keep the later version for our record (post-2019) from the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2015-630107 . MP
Uncontrolled Keywords:	politics representation; Romania; post-communism; party politics
Subjects:	J Political Science > J General legislative and executive papers J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS)
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Last Modified:	19 Sep 2024 08:58
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/47485

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