Studies of Voting Behavior in Romania
Studies of Voting Behavior in Romania

Summary/Abstract: This article reviews the academic literature on how citizens make choices in competitive elections in contemporary Romania since the 1990s. Our review focuses on studies written by Romanian scholars with either national or international academic affiliations and published in academic journals and books. Some of these studies, geared toward an academic audience, test explicitly stated hypotheses derived from extant research and devote considerable attention to explaining technical details so that the readers can, in principle, replicate the analysis. Other studies are less theoretically grounded and less technical, but they provide rich context around specific election events. While most of these studies were published in Romanian scientific journals and with Romanian publishing houses, a group of more recently written studies were published in international journals. In addition to providing a summary of the Romanian literature on voting behavior, our review also discusses areas that were insufficiently explored. The ultimate aim for this review is to provide a research map to those interested in exploring and further contributing to understanding voting behavior and its East European context.

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