Universität zu Köln

Haveric, Sabina (2018). Beyond ethnic voting: Economic and patronage driven electoral mobilization. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.

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Abstract

Academic research on voting behavior in ethnically divided societies focused predominantly on ethnic voting. Economic voting, as a performance based voting, is rather scarce to find in these electoral contexts. It is investigated in more advanced democracies, where voting behavior is rather evaluative in nature than expressive, meaning that ethnicity is rather irrelevant or ethnic differences are non-existent. This thesis contributes to a better understanding of factors which have an impact on voting behavior in societies with ethnic divisions by asking how influential is unemployment on voting outcomes and if voters evaluate economic performance of the government when casting a vote. It also links ethnic voting to the phenomenon of political patronage, reflecting its negative impact on political accountability, per se. To provide empirical evidence, this cumulative dissertation centers mainly on the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina, whereas one study looks at 44 countries.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD thesis)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Haveric, Sabina haveric@wiso.uni-koeln.de UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-85965
Date:	2018
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences
Subjects:	Political science
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Ethnic voting English Political patronage English Economic voting English Unemployment English Bosnia and Herzegovina UNSPECIFIED
Date of oral exam:	10 September 2018
Referee:	Name Academic Title Kaiser, André Prof.Dr. Rohlfing, Ingo Prof.
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/8596