The November 2009 Romanian presidential elections illustrate the process through which media exposure to exit polls during the election day allows strategic voting in the least expected situations (i.e. in the first round of a two-ballot setting). Organized in a two-round system in which the...

This article fills a gap in the literature by explaining list composition and placement of candidates in closed PR (proportional representation) settings. Focusing on the case of Romania in the European elections of June 2009, we rely on an original data set including the sociodemographics,...

This paper is the first systematic attempt to map the evolution of legal regulations concerning campaign finance in post-communist Romania and to link them with corruption practices parties have been engaged in, over the last decade. Our document analysis reveals a general increase in the...

What drives an incumbent legislator's desire for re-election? Drawing on two MP surveys from 2003 and 2011, the paper seeks to answer this question. The bi-variate and multivariate statistical models focus on the explanatory power of a few individual variables: parliamentary experience and...

Previous research on Romanian politics revealed an empirical paradox regarding party system stability. On the one hand, the number of political parties stabilized in the most recent decade and betweenc1992 and 2012 there were no new entries on the parliamentary arena. On the other hand, the...

Do MPs’ change their voting behavior following an electoral reform? Under such circumstances, are there different explanations for MPs’ loyalty towards their PPGs? This paper answers these questions by investigating the individual variation in voting loyalty across two legislative terms...